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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

baylor.edu

Baylor University | A Nationally Ranked Christian University, Undergraduate & Graduate Research Colleges Universities Schools in Texas

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

Visit baylor.edu now to see the best up-to-date Baylor content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about baylor.edu

A top Texas Christian University, As one of the top Texas colleges & Universities, Baylor offers a variety of undergraduate & graduate programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baylor.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baylor.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,000 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baylor.edu

131 ms

www.baylor.edu

276 ms

futura.css

439 ms

bfh_responsive.css

496 ms

web.css

413 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Baylor.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (508 ms) belongs to the original domain Baylor.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 280.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Baylor.edu main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. 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 61.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Baylor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 181.9 kB
  • After minification 163.0 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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 124.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 49.7 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Baylor.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (10%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

74

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baylor. 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

baylor.edu

baylor.edu

131 ms

www.baylor.edu

www.baylor.edu

276 ms

futura.css

futura.css

439 ms

bfh_responsive.css

bfh_responsive.css

496 ms

web.css

web.css

413 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

508 ms

modernizr.custom.35391.js

modernizr.custom.35391.js

453 ms

jquery.google.fastbutton.src.js

jquery.google.fastbutton.src.js

449 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

414 ms

header_responsive.js

header_responsive.js

458 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

473 ms

jquery.cycle2.extras.min.js

jquery.cycle2.extras.min.js

416 ms

mc_video.js

mc_video.js

429 ms

web.js

web.js

444 ms

baylor_standard.jpg

baylor_standard.jpg

254 ms

background_gradient.png

background_gradient.png

58 ms

institutional_mark.png

institutional_mark.png

55 ms

institutional_mark.svg

institutional_mark.svg

90 ms

baylor_print.png

baylor_print.png

56 ms

baylor_green.png

baylor_green.png

57 ms

paragraph.png

paragraph.png

54 ms

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334 ms

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171 ms

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174 ms

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258351.jpg

129 ms

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221 ms

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203099.jpg

173 ms

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256211.jpg

217 ms

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249626.jpg

254 ms

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256214.jpg

256 ms

arrow_left.png

arrow_left.png

218 ms

arrow_right.png

arrow_right.png

260 ms

dollar.png

dollar.png

97 ms

map_point.png

map_point.png

99 ms

judge_baylor.png

judge_baylor.png

96 ms

bear1.png

bear1.png

100 ms

tag.png

tag.png

131 ms

flag.png

flag.png

138 ms

mortar_board.png

mortar_board.png

138 ms

email_simple.png

email_simple.png

137 ms

adm_next_bkg.png

adm_next_bkg.png

257 ms

bkg_side.png

bkg_side.png

261 ms

divider.png

divider.png

295 ms

baylor_proud.png

baylor_proud.png

296 ms

news.png

news.png

299 ms

260173_100.png

260173_100.png

302 ms

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303 ms

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337 ms

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339 ms

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341 ms

244319_0_0.woff

244319_0_0.woff

144 ms

2205EF_2_0.woff

2205EF_2_0.woff

162 ms

259652_100.png

259652_100.png

291 ms

259386_100.png

259386_100.png

292 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

319 ms

mobile_toolbox.png

mobile_toolbox.png

287 ms

bear.png

bear.png

286 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

286 ms

directory.png

directory.png

287 ms

alert_circle.png

alert_circle.png

286 ms

library.png

library.png

290 ms

map_point.png

map_point.png

291 ms

clock.png

clock.png

287 ms

news.png

news.png

289 ms

bear5.png

bear5.png

289 ms

class_list.png

class_list.png

260 ms

screen.png

screen.png

288 ms

baylor_footer_mark.png

baylor_footer_mark.png

79 ms

baylorproud.png

baylorproud.png

306 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

263 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

255 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

256 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

255 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

278 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

259 ms

footer_bkg_dark.png

footer_bkg_dark.png

56 ms

baylor_footer_nav_active.png

baylor_footer_nav_active.png

45 ms

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260183t.png

253 ms

194069t.png

194069t.png

255 ms

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254 ms

258351t.png

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228 ms

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248 ms

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47 ms

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252 ms

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249626t.png

253 ms

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253 ms

Accessibility Review

baylor.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

baylor.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

SEO Factors

baylor.edu SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Baylor.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 Baylor.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

baylor.edu

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