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blackboard.georgetown.edu

Blackboard Learn | University Information Services | Georgetown University

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackboard.georgetown.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2.4 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

blackboard.georgetown.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.georgetown.edu

36 ms

tabAction

1676 ms

shared.css

32 ms

theme.css

28 ms

app_nav.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Blackboard.georgetown.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Campus.georgetown.edu and 2% (1 request) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Blackboard.georgetown.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (76%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

351.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.georgetown.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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 886.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 29.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 163.0 kB
  • After minification 126.2 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. Obviously, Blackboard Georgetown needs image optimization as it can save up to 36.8 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 746.0 kB

  • Original 886.1 kB
  • After minification 552.1 kB
  • After compression 140.1 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 746.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 317.1 kB

  • Original 392.9 kB
  • After minification 363.7 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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. Blackboard.georgetown.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (67%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard Georgetown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Blackboard.georgetown.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 Blackboard.georgetown.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 Blackboard Georgetown. 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: