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ardentinvestors.com

Middle Market Private Investment Firm | Ardent Investors

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

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Ardent invests exclusively in lower middle market companies with enduring prospects. Candidates have between $10 and $100 million of revenues.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ardentinvestors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ardentinvestors.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ardentinvestors.com

157 ms

ardentinvestors.com

730 ms

normalize.css

80 ms

foundation.css

199 ms

styles.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Ardentinvestors.com, 26% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ardentinvestors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 555.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

968.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ardentinvestors.com 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 834.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 12.7 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 9.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 834.1 kB
  • After minification 795.9 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. Ardent Investors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 252.1 kB

  • Original 370.9 kB
  • After minification 360.7 kB
  • After compression 118.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 252.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 255.3 kB

  • Original 305.8 kB
  • After minification 245.3 kB
  • After compression 50.5 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. Ardentinvestors.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (83%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ardent Investors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ardentinvestors.com SEO score

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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 Ardentinvestors.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 Ardentinvestors.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 data is detected on the main page of Ardent Investors. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: