Access crowdingin.com. Lessons from four years of running the UK's first crowdfunding platform directory

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In May 2013 we launched CrowdingIn.com, the UK’s first directory of crowdfunding platforms. CrowdingIn was developed to help its users navigate what was then the relatively new and unknown world of cr...

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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

crowdingin.com

34 ms

lessons-four-years-running-uks-first-crowdfunding-platform-directory-crowdingincom

110 ms

941 ms

main.58bc5478936d.css

33 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Crowdingin.com, 56% (20 requests) were made to Media.nesta.org.uk and 36% (13 requests) were made to Nesta.org.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (941 ms) relates to the external source Nesta.org.uk.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Crowdingin.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 964.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 104.6 kB

Original 124.1 kB
After minification 90.3 kB
After compression 19.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 33.8 kB, which is 27% 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 104.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 964.0 kB
After minification 964.0 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. Crowdingin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 29 B

Original 95.0 kB
After minification 95.0 kB
After compression 95.0 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.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crowdingin. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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