Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blackfounders.com

Black Founders - programs and events for startup entrepreneurs

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

493 ms

About Website

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Black Founders is an organization dedicated to diversity in tech. Our mission is to increase the number of successful black entrepreneurs in technology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackfounders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 2.5 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

blackfounders.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.206

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackfounders.com

175 ms

blackfounders.com

570 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

204 ms

flexslider.css

204 ms

ut.portfolio.style.css

269 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Blackfounders.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Forms.aweber.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (762 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackfounders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 632.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackfounders.com main page is 3.6 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. 80% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 39.6 kB, which is 34% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 102.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Black Founders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 243.2 kB

  • Original 491.6 kB
  • After minification 463.7 kB
  • After compression 248.4 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 243.2 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 261.1 kB

  • Original 354.6 kB
  • After minification 288.8 kB
  • After compression 93.5 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. Blackfounders.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (69%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Founders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackfounders.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

blackfounders.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blackfounders.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 Blackfounders.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 Blackfounders.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 Black Founders. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: