Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

globalcompetitionreview.com

Global Competition Review

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

776 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalcompetitionreview.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 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

globalcompetitionreview.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globalcompetitionreview.com

36 ms

globalcompetitionreview.com

633 ms

gcr.css

116 ms

otSDKStub.js

51 ms

css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Globalcompetitionreview.com, 23% (11 requests) were made to D2qu5xmcgmzxnb.cloudfront.net and 21% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (999 ms) relates to the external source D2qu5xmcgmzxnb.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Globalcompetitionreview.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 148.1 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 143.7 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 31.2 kB, which is 18% 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 148.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Global Competition Review images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 108.8 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 182.6 kB
  • After minification 182.6 kB
  • After compression 182.6 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. Globalcompetitionreview.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Competition Review. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

globalcompetitionreview.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

globalcompetitionreview.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

globalcompetitionreview.com SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Globalcompetitionreview.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 Globalcompetitionreview.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 Global Competition Review. 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: