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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

go.balderton.com

Europe’s leading venture firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded tech companies

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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About Website

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In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Go.balderton.com page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

go.balderton.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value73.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.balderton.com

285 ms

style.min.css

32 ms

css2

82 ms

style.css

23 ms

style.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Go.balderton.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (439 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

14.5 MB

After Optimization

14.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Go.balderton.com main page is 14.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 101.1 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 82.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 14.1 MB
  • After minification 14.0 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. Go Balderton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 726 B

  • Original 179.9 kB
  • After minification 179.9 kB
  • After compression 179.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 94.5 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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. Go.balderton.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Balderton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.balderton.com

www.balderton.com

285 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

32 ms

css2

css2

82 ms

style.css

style.css

23 ms

style.css

style.css

59 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

28 ms

v2.js

v2.js

56 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

32 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

32 ms

js

js

84 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

underline-xl.svg

underline-xl.svg

28 ms

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Hiroki-GoCardless-removebg-20.png

56 ms

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hero-pattern.png

67 ms

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60 ms

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Soner_Aydemir_HEADER.png

62 ms

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marcia_Kilgore_HEADER.png

40 ms

Alex-Kendall-CEO-and-Co-founder-Wayve-1-e1712743586564.png

Alex-Kendall-CEO-and-Co-founder-Wayve-1-e1712743586564.png

109 ms

Simon-Beckerman_Founder_Delli.png

Simon-Beckerman_Founder_Delli.png

71 ms

May-Habib_Co-Founder-CEO_Writer.png

May-Habib_Co-Founder-CEO_Writer.png

74 ms

underline.svg

underline.svg

69 ms

PhotoRoom_logo_darkgrey.png

PhotoRoom_logo_darkgrey.png

76 ms

Revolut-Logo_new24_dark.png

Revolut-Logo_new24_dark.png

75 ms

Contentful.png

Contentful.png

80 ms

Depop.png

Depop.png

79 ms

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DreamGames_Logo_grey.png

81 ms

GoCardless.png

GoCardless.png

92 ms

mysql.png

mysql.png

87 ms

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logo-black-with-gradient-d-top.png

91 ms

Wayve-Logo-Small.png

Wayve-Logo-Small.png

93 ms

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Alex-Kendall-copy2-596x754.png

96 ms

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117 ms

Rachel-Delacour.png

Rachel-Delacour.png

114 ms

Resources@3x-636x512.png

Resources@3x-636x512.png

116 ms

IMG_5377-298x240.jpg

IMG_5377-298x240.jpg

115 ms

Balderton-Resources_Bernard_fundlaunch_blog-298x240.png

Balderton-Resources_Bernard_fundlaunch_blog-298x240.png

114 ms

logo-footer.svg

logo-footer.svg

127 ms

Cambon-Bold.woff

Cambon-Bold.woff

320 ms

Cambon-SemiBold.woff

Cambon-SemiBold.woff

333 ms

Cambon-Medium.woff

Cambon-Medium.woff

333 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

17 ms

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UcCO3FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIw2boKoduKmMEVuLyfMZhrib2Au-0.ttf

285 ms

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439 ms

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415 ms

Accessibility Review

go.balderton.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

go.balderton.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

go.balderton.com SEO score

86

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

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 Go.balderton.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 Go.balderton.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

go.balderton.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Go Balderton. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: