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blackboard.theamericancollege.edu

Brightspace | The American College of Financial Services

Page Load Speed

802 ms in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

563 ms

Page Rendered

117 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 680 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.theamericancollege.edu

122 ms

shared.css

23 ms

theme.css

85 ms

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

102 ms

brand.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu, 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Bbcontent.theamericancollege.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (185 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (78%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

295.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 764.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. 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 33.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 68.1 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. Blackboard The American College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 624.4 kB

  • Original 764.4 kB
  • After minification 503.7 kB
  • After compression 140.0 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 624.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 359.3 kB

  • Original 436.5 kB
  • After minification 394.2 kB
  • After compression 77.1 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. Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 359.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (70%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard The American College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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blackboard.theamericancollege.edu

122 ms

shared.css

shared.css

23 ms

theme.css

theme.css

85 ms

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

102 ms

brand.css

brand.css

89 ms

i18n.js

i18n.js

82 ms

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D4C5211FE7B4EAF0D23711B7526945BF.js

185 ms

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73 ms

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108 ms

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112 ms

icon-core.css

icon-core.css

69 ms

icon-listing.css

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76 ms

theme1.css

theme1.css

72 ms

theme2.css

theme2.css

51 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

104 ms

sidebarBack.jpg

sidebarBack.jpg

106 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

74 ms

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81 ms

sidebarBack.jpg

sidebarBack.jpg

116 ms

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71 ms

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fonts.gif

69 ms

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69 ms

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71 ms

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close_mini.gif

71 ms

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96 ms

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97 ms

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42 ms

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46 ms

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65 ms

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36 ms

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55 ms

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18 ms

print.css

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10 ms

SEO Factors

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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 Blackboard.theamericancollege.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 Blackboard.theamericancollege.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blackboard The American College. 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: