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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% 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

hbcutours.org

HBCU First: Leading HBCU internship and mentoring academy

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hbcutours.org page load time and found that the first response time was 540 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hbcutours.org performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.762

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hbcufirst.com

540 ms

default.css

184 ms

ie.css

174 ms

content_slider_style.css

176 ms

magnific-popup.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Hbcutours.org, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) relates to the external source Hbcufirst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (52%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hbcutours.org main page is 4.9 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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 56.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 206 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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 Tours images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 444.9 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 1.3 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 184.4 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. Hbcutours.org 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 77 (87%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HBCU Tours. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 48 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hbcufirst.com

hbcufirst.com

540 ms

default.css

default.css

184 ms

ie.css

ie.css

174 ms

content_slider_style.css

content_slider_style.css

176 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

183 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

180 ms

pagepiling.css

pagepiling.css

190 ms

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.min.css

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.min.css

261 ms

soon.min.css

soon.min.css

262 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

224 ms

skin.css

skin.css

225 ms

cerarmalcolm.css

cerarmalcolm.css

275 ms

home.css

home.css

231 ms

Style.css

Style.css

360 ms

Style.css

Style.css

273 ms

font-icon.css

font-icon.css

281 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

304 ms

images.css

images.css

309 ms

css

css

33 ms

css

css

52 ms

css

css

57 ms

css2

css2

61 ms

css

css

60 ms

jquery.mmenu.css

jquery.mmenu.css

319 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

365 ms

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-migrate.js

326 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

556 ms

js

js

55 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

315 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

370 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

337 ms

dnn.js

dnn.js

359 ms

dnn.modalpopup.js

dnn.modalpopup.js

368 ms

mobile-detect.min.js

mobile-detect.min.js

379 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.merge.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.merge.js

524 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

406 ms

vivus.min.js

vivus.min.js

413 ms

dnncore.js

dnncore.js

414 ms

dnngo-ThemePlugin.js

dnngo-ThemePlugin.js

427 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.js

SearchSkinObjectPreview.js

448 ms

dnn.servicesframework.js

dnn.servicesframework.js

457 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

420 ms

jquery.content_slider.min.js

jquery.content_slider.min.js

437 ms

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

360 ms

easyResponsiveTabs.js

easyResponsiveTabs.js

369 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

365 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

382 ms

google.map.js

google.map.js

390 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

401 ms

jquery.pagepiling.min.js

jquery.pagepiling.min.js

368 ms

css

css

17 ms

dnngo-font-icon.css

dnngo-font-icon.css

384 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

390 ms

skin.css

skin.css

352 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

370 ms

page.css

page.css

366 ms

header_normal.css

header_normal.css

364 ms

accordions.css

accordions.css

371 ms

blockquotes.css

blockquotes.css

350 ms

button.css

button.css

360 ms

carousel.css

carousel.css

355 ms

chart.css

chart.css

357 ms

clients.css

clients.css

337 ms

css3-animation.css

css3-animation.css

338 ms

flip-box.css

flip-box.css

333 ms

form_style.css

form_style.css

345 ms

icon-box.css

icon-box.css

328 ms

imagebox.css

imagebox.css

329 ms

number.css

number.css

326 ms

ourteam.css

ourteam.css

330 ms

portfolios.css

portfolios.css

302 ms

pricing.css

pricing.css

316 ms

promo-boxes.css

promo-boxes.css

317 ms

tabs.css

tabs.css

313 ms

testimonial.css

testimonial.css

297 ms

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.concat.min.js

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.concat.min.js

365 ms

soon.min.js

soon.min.js

361 ms

dnngo.js

dnngo.js

346 ms

custom.js

custom.js

330 ms

Logo-Website-HBCUfirst.png

Logo-Website-HBCUfirst.png

55 ms

SP24-TeamClaflin-1080.jpg

SP24-TeamClaflin-1080.jpg

106 ms

SP24-TeamClaflin-1920x1920.jpg

SP24-TeamClaflin-1920x1920.jpg

188 ms

Thumb-DayOneReady.jpg

Thumb-DayOneReady.jpg

56 ms

Thumb-WhoWeAre.jpg

Thumb-WhoWeAre.jpg

55 ms

Thumb-GetInvolved.jpg

Thumb-GetInvolved.jpg

54 ms

Thumb-Resources.jpg

Thumb-Resources.jpg

106 ms

font

font

81 ms

dnngo.ttf

dnngo.ttf

167 ms

embed.js

embed.js

228 ms

font

font

189 ms

font

font

190 ms

Accessibility Review

hbcutours.org 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

hbcutours.org 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

hbcutours.org 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 Hbcutours.org 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 Hbcutours.org 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

hbcutours.org

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