Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

builtincolorado.com

Denver & Boulder Tech & Startups | Built In Colorado

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

builtincolorado.com screenshot

About Website

Visit builtincolorado.com now to see the best up-to-date Built In Colorado content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about builtincolorado.com

Built In Colorado is the online community for Denver & Boulder startups and tech companies. Find startup jobs, tech news and events in the Denver & Boulder tech scene.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Builtincolorado.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 2.3 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

builtincolorado.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

builtincolorado.com

180 ms

www.builtincolorado.com

1025 ms

jquery.min.js

35 ms

client:platform.js

210 ms

dc2948c4-cb80-4ab3-b5e7-d242504a2b45.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Builtincolorado.com, 15% (12 requests) were made to Media4.cdn.builtincolorado.com and 13% (10 requests) were made to Media5.cdn.builtincolorado.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Builtincolorado.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

863.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Builtincolorado.com main page is 1.1 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 782.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 78.1 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 69.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 782.8 kB
  • After minification 719.5 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. Built In Colorado images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 113.5 kB

  • Original 187.7 kB
  • After minification 187.7 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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 113.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 54.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (29%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Built In Colorado. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

builtincolorado.com accessibility score

92

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

builtincolorado.com best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

builtincolorado.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Builtincolorado.com 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 Builtincolorado.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 Built In Colorado. 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: