Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

growthink.com

Business Plans, Business Plan Consulting, Banking | Growthink

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

growthink.com screenshot

About Website

Visit growthink.com now to see the best up-to-date Growthink content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about growthink.com

Growthink helps privately held companies raise capital for growth and shareholder liquidity. Since 1999, Growthink has helped thousands of businesses raise billions of dollars.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Growthink.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 4.2 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

growthink.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value32,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

growthink.com

67 ms

www.growthink.com

162 ms

prum.min.js

5 ms

css_0a6c0d4766a8bb291a3955f85fb5cf45.css

10 ms

js_20f8153821a444877a342f2357111d69.jsmin.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Growthink.com, 15% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Pixel.prfct.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Pixel.prfct.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.5 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

702.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Growthink.com main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 612.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 40.7 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 40.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 59.5 kB

  • Original 459.6 kB
  • After minification 400.0 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. Obviously, Growthink needs image optimization as it can save up to 59.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 356.5 kB

  • Original 612.6 kB
  • After minification 609.6 kB
  • After compression 256.1 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 356.5 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 203.7 kB

  • Original 232.5 kB
  • After minification 187.6 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Growthink.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (56%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Growthink. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

growthink.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

growthink.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

growthink.com SEO score

82

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

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 Growthink.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 Growthink.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 Growthink. 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: