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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackboard.gonzaga.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 1.6 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

blackboard.gonzaga.edu performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.gonzaga.edu

280 ms

137 ms

shared.css

18 ms

theme.css

74 ms

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blackboard.gonzaga.edu, 85% (23 requests) were made to Learn.gonzaga.edu and 4% (1 request) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (566 ms) relates to the external source Gonzaga.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 800.0 kB (77%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

232.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.gonzaga.edu main page is 1.0 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 561.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 31.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 55.3 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. Blackboard Gonzaga images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 466.0 kB

  • Original 561.4 kB
  • After minification 365.6 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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 466.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 298.1 kB

  • Original 370.9 kB
  • After minification 351.7 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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.gonzaga.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 298.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard Gonzaga. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.gonzaga.edu

blackboard.gonzaga.edu

280 ms

137 ms

shared.css

shared.css

18 ms

theme.css

theme.css

74 ms

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

colorpalette.generated.modern.css

57 ms

i18n.js

i18n.js

25 ms

4252F1A90AD032AB84C66D056E12BBE9.js

4252F1A90AD032AB84C66D056E12BBE9.js

114 ms

MashupDWRFacade.js

MashupDWRFacade.js

29 ms

esapi-compressed.js

esapi-compressed.js

42 ms

ESAPI_Standard_en_US.properties.js

ESAPI_Standard_en_US.properties.js

45 ms

Base.esapi.properties.js

Base.esapi.properties.js

47 ms

6E68B16A13F001BB4C484D0788838166.js

6E68B16A13F001BB4C484D0788838166.js

60 ms

BBEB35F99E250B52E993DFCCD8221CF0.js

BBEB35F99E250B52E993DFCCD8221CF0.js

66 ms

theme1.css

theme1.css

69 ms

theme2.css

theme2.css

53 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

120 ms

logos.png

logos.png

566 ms

bblearn_2011_bg.png

bblearn_2011_bg.png

25 ms

fonts.gif

fonts.gif

23 ms

contrast.gif

contrast.gif

34 ms

Gateway_Learn.jpg

Gateway_Learn.jpg

26 ms

Powered_Bb_050.png

Powered_Bb_050.png

19 ms

close_mini.gif

close_mini.gif

30 ms

branding_Bb_learn_140.png

branding_Bb_learn_140.png

31 ms

utilicons-web-webfont.woff

utilicons-web-webfont.woff

37 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

63 ms

print.css

print.css

28 ms

Accessibility Review

blackboard.gonzaga.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blackboard.gonzaga.edu 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackboard.gonzaga.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackboard.gonzaga.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Blackboard.gonzaga.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

blackboard.gonzaga.edu

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