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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

gcg.com

Welcome | GCG - Geneva Capital Group

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

gcg.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing GCG content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gcg.com

Geneva Capital Group is a global network of M&A, Corporate Finance and Strategy Firms supporting companies and entrepreneurs across many different countries and industries in important decisions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcg.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcg.com

266 ms

www.gcg.com

565 ms

jquery.min.js

178 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

265 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Gcg.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.0 kB (2%)

Content Size

10.0 MB

After Optimization

9.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcg.com main page is 10.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 10.5 kB, which is 16% 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 52.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 9.4 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. GCG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 309.9 kB
  • After minification 309.9 kB
  • After compression 309.8 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 1.5 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Gcg.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (38%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GCG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gcg.com

gcg.com

266 ms

www.gcg.com

www.gcg.com

565 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

178 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

265 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

305 ms

caption.js

caption.js

309 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

50 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

317 ms

style.css

style.css

329 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

332 ms

smartslider.min.css

smartslider.min.css

352 ms

css

css

52 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

544 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

594 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

433 ms

smartslider-backgroundanimation.min.js

smartslider-backgroundanimation.min.js

697 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

433 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

37 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

58 ms

pace.min.js

pace.min.js

449 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

51 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

58 ms

css

css

23 ms

logo.png

logo.png

103 ms

slide-1.jpg

slide-1.jpg

635 ms

slide-4.jpg

slide-4.jpg

956 ms

slide-2.jpg

slide-2.jpg

564 ms

slide-3.jpg

slide-3.jpg

638 ms

slide-5.jpg

slide-5.jpg

555 ms

services.jpg

services.jpg

989 ms

claudio_home.jpg

claudio_home.jpg

638 ms

sell-side.jpg

sell-side.jpg

644 ms

buy-side.jpg

buy-side.jpg

721 ms

fundraising.jpg

fundraising.jpg

723 ms

strategy.jpg

strategy.jpg

726 ms

item-transaction.jpg

item-transaction.jpg

725 ms

logo_transaction.jpg

logo_transaction.jpg

803 ms

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.jpg

850 ms

sentio_partners_llp.jpg

sentio_partners_llp.jpg

805 ms

thumb_business-services.jpg

thumb_business-services.jpg

813 ms

thumb_construction.jpg

thumb_construction.jpg

891 ms

thumb_engineering.jpg

thumb_engineering.jpg

885 ms

thumb_industrials.jpg

thumb_industrials.jpg

902 ms

thumb_consumer-goods.jpg

thumb_consumer-goods.jpg

929 ms

thumb_retail.jpg

thumb_retail.jpg

965 ms

location-home.jpg

location-home.jpg

977 ms

international-alliance-home.jpg

international-alliance-home.jpg

1064 ms

evolve_corporate_finance.jpg

evolve_corporate_finance.jpg

1009 ms

ggi_by_fotodeveloper_CH10_191109_021.jpg

ggi_by_fotodeveloper_CH10_191109_021.jpg

1116 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

1120 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

1060 ms

ggi_member_footer.png

ggi_member_footer.png

1071 ms

MBaer_Logo.jpg

MBaer_Logo.jpg

1027 ms

mergermarket-logo.png

mergermarket-logo.png

1081 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

44 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

77 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

106 ms

fontawesome-webfont-v=4.5.0.woff

fontawesome-webfont-v=4.5.0.woff

1096 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

77 ms

refinitiv_logo.jpg

refinitiv_logo.jpg

1063 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

js

js

64 ms

Accessibility Review

gcg.com accessibility score

78

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

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

gcg.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

gcg.com SEO score

75

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 Gcg.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 Gcg.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

gcg.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GCG. 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: