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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

universityofbaltimore.org

University of Baltimore - Undergraduate & Graduate Degrees in Maryland

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

623 ms

Page Rendered

383 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universityofbaltimore.org page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

universityofbaltimore.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

universityofbaltimore.org

18 ms

www.ubalt.edu

34 ms

ubstyles.css

22 ms

admission.main.css

19 ms

owl.carousel.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Universityofbaltimore.org, 76% (38 requests) were made to Ubalt.edu and 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (349 ms) relates to the external source Ubalt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 541.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Universityofbaltimore.org main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 19.0 kB, which is 36% 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 44.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 139.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 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. University Of Baltimore images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 276.5 kB

  • Original 488.5 kB
  • After minification 431.4 kB
  • After compression 212.0 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 276.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 117.5 kB
  • After minification 95.4 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. Universityofbaltimore.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (57%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of University Of Baltimore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

universityofbaltimore.org

universityofbaltimore.org

18 ms

www.ubalt.edu

www.ubalt.edu

34 ms

ubstyles.css

ubstyles.css

22 ms

admission.main.css

admission.main.css

19 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

17 ms

owl.transitions.css

owl.transitions.css

20 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

17 ms

styles.css

styles.css

31 ms

designstudio.css

designstudio.css

24 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

29 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

74 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

28 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

85 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

73 ms

handlebars.js

handlebars.js

94 ms

snapshots.handlebars.js

snapshots.handlebars.js

94 ms

jwplayer.js

jwplayer.js

99 ms

vidgallery.js

vidgallery.js

97 ms

main.js

main.js

105 ms

site.js

site.js

96 ms

custom.js

custom.js

97 ms

admission.js

admission.js

97 ms

designstudio.js

designstudio.js

98 ms

js3

js3

264 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

335 ms

los7dfc.js

los7dfc.js

209 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

262 ms

beacon

beacon

295 ms

ub-logo-big.svg

ub-logo-big.svg

280 ms

ub-logo-small.svg

ub-logo-small.svg

278 ms

hero.jpg

hero.jpg

280 ms

main_hero_firstgen.jpg

main_hero_firstgen.jpg

281 ms

homepage_video_graduation.jpg

homepage_video_graduation.jpg

279 ms

FeatherstoneFoundationlogo1961.jpg

FeatherstoneFoundationlogo1961.jpg

280 ms

BetsyBoydBMA196.jpg

BetsyBoydBMA196.jpg

285 ms

Rajuwithstudents196.jpg

Rajuwithstudents196.jpg

285 ms

spring_2023_9508_web.jpg

spring_2023_9508_web.jpg

292 ms

donte-hayes-web-1587.jpg

donte-hayes-web-1587.jpg

318 ms

esatou_cole_web-5524.jpg

esatou_cole_web-5524.jpg

286 ms

eric_jurkiewicz_web-02538.jpg

eric_jurkiewicz_web-02538.jpg

292 ms

homepage_mag_jan24.jpg

homepage_mag_jan24.jpg

349 ms

campus-map.png

campus-map.png

316 ms

metanor-webfont.woff

metanor-webfont.woff

302 ms

ubalt.woff

ubalt.woff

127 ms

d

d

47 ms

d

d

152 ms

d

d

69 ms

smartscript.js

smartscript.js

3 ms

p.gif

p.gif

40 ms

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84 ms

Accessibility Review

universityofbaltimore.org accessibility score

52

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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

universityofbaltimore.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

SEO Factors

universityofbaltimore.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Universityofbaltimore.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 Universityofbaltimore.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

universityofbaltimore.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of University Of Baltimore. 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: