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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

gmat.babson.edu

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gmat.babson.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gmat.babson.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gmat.babson.edu

276 ms

base.css

63 ms

irt-landing-new.css

178 ms

irt-landing-new.js

352 ms

marketing.bschool.js

804 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Gmat.babson.edu, 10% (4 requests) were made to Tags.bluekai.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (804 ms) relates to the external source Gmat.economist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

786.0 kB

After Optimization

561.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gmat.babson.edu main page is 786.0 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 425.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.3 kB

  • Original 45.4 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.3 kB, which is 32% 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 36.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 425.6 kB
  • After minification 411.0 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. GMAT Babson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 133.4 kB

  • Original 266.0 kB
  • After minification 266.0 kB
  • After compression 132.6 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 133.4 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Gmat.babson.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GMAT Babson. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gmat.babson.edu

gmat.babson.edu

276 ms

base.css

base.css

63 ms

irt-landing-new.css

irt-landing-new.css

178 ms

irt-landing-new.js

irt-landing-new.js

352 ms

marketing.bschool.js

marketing.bschool.js

804 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

70 ms

bk-coretag.js

bk-coretag.js

97 ms

dc.js

dc.js

138 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

logo.png

logo.png

60 ms

poweredby.png

poweredby.png

41 ms

Babson_Olin.jpg

Babson_Olin.jpg

401 ms

micro.png

micro.png

73 ms

ico-btn-arr.png

ico-btn-arr.png

85 ms

mini.png

mini.png

147 ms

full.png

full.png

84 ms

ico-social-fb.png

ico-social-fb.png

83 ms

ico-social-t.png

ico-social-t.png

151 ms

ico-social-g.png

ico-social-g.png

152 ms

ico-social-in.png

ico-social-in.png

150 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

150 ms

signup-close.png

signup-close.png

202 ms

logo-small.png

logo-small.png

202 ms

131 ms

Trade.ttf

Trade.ttf

276 ms

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s87706489979755

83 ms

19805

19805

77 ms

119 ms

adsct

adsct

188 ms

usersync.html

usersync.html

189 ms

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29 ms

51 ms

2981

2981

43 ms

16365

16365

120 ms

3096

3096

93 ms

nr-918.min.js

nr-918.min.js

65 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

42 ms

459544b186

459544b186

67 ms

TGIQ5XSUNFEUZP6MFJHY45.js

TGIQ5XSUNFEUZP6MFJHY45.js

437 ms

Accessibility Review

gmat.babson.edu accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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>).

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

gmat.babson.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gmat.babson.edu 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 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 Gmat.babson.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 Gmat.babson.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

gmat.babson.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GMAT Babson. 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: