Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

baypath.edu

Bay Path University - Massachusetts Undergraduate & Graduate Degrees

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

536 ms

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About Website

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

Bay Path University, an independent and not-for-profit institution located in Massachusetts, offers traditional undergraduate degrees for women, The American Women's College online, and graduate ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baypath.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 33 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

baypath.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.209

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baypath.edu

33 ms

www.baypath.edu

55 ms

modernizr.js

5 ms

site.css

25 ms

widgets.js

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Baypath.edu, 28% (17 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 27% (16 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (765 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 712.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Baypath.edu main page is 2.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 67.0 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 61.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Bay Path images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 216.5 kB

  • Original 330.2 kB
  • After minification 330.1 kB
  • After compression 113.7 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 216.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 411.6 kB

  • Original 464.9 kB
  • After minification 455.3 kB
  • After compression 53.3 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. Baypath.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 411.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (14%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

36

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

Accessibility Review

baypath.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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

baypath.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

baypath.edu SEO score

88

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Baypath.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 Baypath.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 Path. 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: