Tools & Wizards About Us
blueband.psu.edu screenshot

Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blueband.psu.edu

Penn State Blue Band |

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

blueband.psu.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to blueband.psu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Blue Band Psu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about blueband.psu.edu

Visit blueband.psu.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Blueband.psu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 196 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

blueband.psu.edu performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.474

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blueband.psu.edu

196 ms

style.css

34 ms

nivo-slider.css

67 ms

default.css

71 ms

jquery.min.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Blueband.psu.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Graph.facebook.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Api.soundcloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Blueband.psu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 172.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blueband.psu.edu main page is 4.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 9.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 111.1 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Blue Band Psu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 39.2 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Blueband.psu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Band Psu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blueband.psu.edu

blueband.psu.edu

196 ms

style.css

style.css

34 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

67 ms

default.css

default.css

71 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

67 ms

player.css

player.css

67 ms

soundcloud.player.api.js

soundcloud.player.api.js

67 ms

sc-player.js

sc-player.js

100 ms

social-media.js

social-media.js

98 ms

twitter.php

twitter.php

1057 ms

twitter_random.php

twitter_random.php

974 ms

access_token

access_token

144 ms

resolve

resolve

305 ms

play.png

play.png

170 ms

newbbheader.png

newbbheader.png

181 ms

shield2015.png

shield2015.png

88 ms

bblogo.png

bblogo.png

60 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

60 ms

hashtagbluebandhype.png

hashtagbluebandhype.png

320 ms

statecollege_marchblueband.png

statecollege_marchblueband.png

284 ms

sixtyhours.png

sixtyhours.png

330 ms

wpsu.png

wpsu.png

260 ms

thon.png

thon.png

368 ms

manattheturn.png

manattheturn.png

486 ms

press-kit.png

press-kit.png

360 ms

tour.png

tour.png

362 ms

floating-lions.png

floating-lions.png

393 ms

ftklogo.png

ftklogo.png

396 ms

abba.png

abba.png

401 ms

facebook_icon.png

facebook_icon.png

438 ms

twitter-icon2.png

twitter-icon2.png

439 ms

pause.png

pause.png

198 ms

maven_pro_regular-webfont.woff

maven_pro_regular-webfont.woff

435 ms

posts

posts

653 ms

7447043.json

7447043.json

594 ms

shorten

shorten

28 ms

gVm6Q8aOBMSI_m.png

gVm6Q8aOBMSI_m.png

97 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

35 ms

Accessibility Review

blueband.psu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blueband.psu.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

blueband.psu.edu SEO score

86

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

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 Blueband.psu.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 Blueband.psu.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

blueband.psu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blue Band Psu. 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: