Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

baycollege.edu

Community College in Michigan | Bay College - Bay is the Way!

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

904 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baycollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 904 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baycollege.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,430 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baycollege.edu

904 ms

GetResource.ashx

169 ms

GetResource.ashx

107 ms

GetResource.ashx

109 ms

GetResource.ashx

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Baycollege.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (904 ms) belongs to the original domain Baycollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 786.5 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

728.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Baycollege.edu main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 656.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 41.3 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. 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 30.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 500.0 kB
  • After minification 474.0 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. Bay College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 470.8 kB

  • Original 656.4 kB
  • After minification 601.5 kB
  • After compression 185.6 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 470.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 259.4 kB

  • Original 314.6 kB
  • After minification 314.4 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Baycollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (35%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bay 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

baycollege.edu accessibility score

87

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

baycollege.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

baycollege.edu SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Baycollege.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Baycollege.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bay 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: