Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

blackbaud.com

Homepage - Blackbaud

Page Load Speed

60.4 sec in total

First Response

526 ms

Resources Loaded

55.2 sec

Page Rendered

4.7 sec

blackbaud.com screenshot

About Website

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Blackbaud, Inc. provides nonprofit management solutions, fundraising software, prospect research, fund accounting, school administration, ticketing and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackbaud.com page load time and found that the first response time was 526 ms and then it took 59.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackbaud.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,310 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackbaud.com

526 ms

www.blackbaud.com

803 ms

IE8Menu.css

390 ms

stylesheet0.0.css

536 ms

stylesheet41.636331478161800000.css

1121 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Blackbaud.com, 10% (17 requests) were made to Signin.blackbaud.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.2 sec) relates to the external source Secure.eloqua.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (47%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackbaud.com main page is 4.5 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. 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 95.6 kB

  • Original 124.9 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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 95.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 876.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 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. Obviously, Blackbaud needs image optimization as it can save up to 876.0 kB or 33% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 587.4 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 1.0 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.9 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Blackbaud.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (68%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackbaud. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackbaud.com accessibility score

92

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

blackbaud.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blackbaud.com SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Blackbaud.com 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 Blackbaud.com 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 Blackbaud. 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: