Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

businesscycle.com

Economic Cycle Research Institute | Public Home | ECRI - ECRI | Economic Cycle Research Institute

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

55 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Businesscycle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

businesscycle.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,590 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

businesscycle.com

86 ms

www.businesscycle.com

1160 ms

pa-frontend-6a9347696.min.css

70 ms

eae.min.css

159 ms

peel.css

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (121 requests) were addressed to the original Businesscycle.com, 4% (6 requests) were made to Clients.businesscycle.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Businesscycle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 611.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Businesscycle.com main page is 2.8 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 218.0 kB

  • Original 251.9 kB
  • After minification 243.9 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. 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 218.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 292.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Business Cycle needs image optimization as it can save up to 292.2 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 268.7 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 232.5 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 36.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 268.6 kB
  • After compression 204.0 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. Businesscycle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (72%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Cycle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

businesscycle.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

businesscycle.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

businesscycle.com SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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