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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

hbcufirst.com

HBCU First: Nation's leading HBCU internship program

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

473 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hbcufirst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hbcufirst.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.294

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hbcufirst.com

140 ms

hbcufirst.com

526 ms

default.css

168 ms

content_slider_style.css

173 ms

magnific-popup.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Hbcufirst.com, 22% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Hbcufirst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (65%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hbcufirst.com main page is 4.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 32.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.8 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 59.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 688.6 kB
  • After minification 683.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. HBCU First images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 583.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 184.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Hbcufirst.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (86%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HBCU First. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 47 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

hbcufirst.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

hbcufirst.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hbcufirst.com SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hbcufirst.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Hbcufirst.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

hbcufirst.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of HBCU First. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: