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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

msbdc.org

Home | Massachusetts SBDC | UMass Amherst

Page Load Speed

899 ms in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

633 ms

Page Rendered

173 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Msbdc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 806 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

msbdc.org performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

msbdc.org

93 ms

www.msbdc.org

123 ms

js

51 ms

msbdc_new1.css

19 ms

p7exp.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Msbdc.org, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) relates to the external source Siteimproveanalytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

500.4 kB

After Optimization

473.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Msbdc.org main page is 500.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 461.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 8.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 461.1 kB
  • After minification 446.8 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. M SBDC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 311 B

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Msbdc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (18%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M SBDC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

msbdc.org

msbdc.org

93 ms

www.msbdc.org

www.msbdc.org

123 ms

js

js

51 ms

msbdc_new1.css

msbdc_new1.css

19 ms

p7exp.js

p7exp.js

37 ms

p7exp3.css

p7exp3.css

74 ms

UM_wordmark.gif

UM_wordmark.gif

48 ms

msbdc_logo_new2023.jpg

msbdc_logo_new2023.jpg

62 ms

estar_box.jpg

estar_box.jpg

62 ms

asbdc_video2.jpg

asbdc_video2.jpg

76 ms

SBA-PoweredBy_sm.jpg

SBA-PoweredBy_sm.jpg

69 ms

mobd_logo2_sm.gif

mobd_logo2_sm.gif

80 ms

Isenberg_logo_horizontal.jpg

Isenberg_logo_horizontal.jpg

108 ms

accredited_seal_web.jpg

accredited_seal_web.jpg

81 ms

siteanalyze_21085.js

siteanalyze_21085.js

238 ms

cafe_fit2.jpg

cafe_fit2.jpg

77 ms

p7exp_mbar2b.jpg

p7exp_mbar2b.jpg

62 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

Accessibility Review

msbdc.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

msbdc.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

msbdc.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Msbdc.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 Msbdc.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

msbdc.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of M SBDC. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: