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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

msubillings.edu

Montana State University Billings | MSU Billings

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

msubillings.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to msubillings.edu homepage info - get ready to check MSU Billings best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about msubillings.edu

Montana State University Billings has been an integral part of the Billings community and a student-centered learning environment since its early days as Eastern Montana College.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Msubillings.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

msubillings.edu performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.269

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

msubillings.edu

246 ms

msubillings.edu

342 ms

billings-styles.css

164 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

46 ms

slick.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Msubillings.edu, 8% (7 requests) were made to Montana.edu and 7% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Msubillings.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Msubillings.edu main page is 3.1 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. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 10.3 kB, which is 15% 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 54.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 155.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. MSU Billings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 514.0 kB
  • After minification 513.7 kB
  • After compression 465.7 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 107.1 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 104.2 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. Msubillings.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (65%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MSU Billings. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

msubillings.edu

msubillings.edu

246 ms

msubillings.edu

msubillings.edu

342 ms

billings-styles.css

billings-styles.css

164 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

46 ms

slick.css

slick.css

244 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

320 ms

slickslider.css

slickslider.css

322 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

js

js

71 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

398 ms

script.js

script.js

422 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

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42 ms

slick.js

slick.js

423 ms

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44 ms

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font-awesome.css

40 ms

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gtm.js

127 ms

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gtm.js

182 ms

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analytics.js

247 ms

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1721 ms

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103 ms

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678 ms

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210 ms

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419 ms

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810 ms

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165 ms

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320 ms

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326 ms

react-is.production.min.js

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384 ms

styled-components.min.js

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554 ms

embed.js

embed.js

398 ms

embed.css

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383 ms

js

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340 ms

destination

destination

264 ms

fbevents.js

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577 ms

bat.js

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763 ms

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464 ms

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618 ms

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665 ms

msubillings-alert.html

msubillings-alert.html

585 ms

index.php

index.php

777 ms

collect

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364 ms

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collect

458 ms

collect

collect

269 ms

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ajax-loader.gif

290 ms

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quant.js

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127 ms

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123 ms

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11 ms

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139 ms

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91 ms

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78 ms

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354 ms

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23 ms

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Accessibility Review

msubillings.edu accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

msubillings.edu 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

msubillings.edu SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Msubillings.edu 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 Msubillings.edu 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

msubillings.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MSU Billings. 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: