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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

blackboard.utexas.edu

University of Texas at Austin Canvas Learning Management System

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

913 ms

Page Rendered

678 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackboard.utexas.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 173 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.utexas.edu performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.utexas.edu

173 ms

canvas.utexas.edu

291 ms

js

97 ms

pure-min.css

234 ms

font-awesome.min.css

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blackboard.utexas.edu, 65% (11 requests) were made to Canvas.utexas.edu and 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (302 ms) relates to the external source Canvas.utexas.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

389.5 kB

After Optimization

339.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.utexas.edu main page is 389.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 256.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 41.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 118 B

  • Original 256.2 kB
  • After minification 256.1 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 U Texas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 30.5 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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.utexas.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard U Texas. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.utexas.edu

blackboard.utexas.edu

173 ms

canvas.utexas.edu

canvas.utexas.edu

291 ms

js

js

97 ms

pure-min.css

pure-min.css

234 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

154 ms

custom.css

custom.css

94 ms

main.css

main.css

236 ms

notices.css

notices.css

235 ms

form-styles.css

form-styles.css

281 ms

login.css

login.css

233 ms

jquery-2.x.min.js

jquery-2.x.min.js

302 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

53 ms

collect

collect

249 ms

header_extralarge.jpg

header_extralarge.jpg

133 ms

teaching.jpg

teaching.jpg

119 ms

students.jpg

students.jpg

119 ms

canvas-pro.jpg

canvas-pro.jpg

117 ms

Accessibility Review

blackboard.utexas.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

blackboard.utexas.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blackboard.utexas.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blackboard.utexas.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 Blackboard.utexas.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.utexas.edu

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