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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

guardhillholdings.com

Guard Hill Holdings | Private Equity, Investment, Turnaround financing for middle market industrial companies.

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

736 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

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About Website

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Guard Hill Holdings is a private equity firm focused on middle market industrial businesses in the general industrial and transportation-related industries. Guard Hill makes investments in turnarounds...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guardhillholdings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 736 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guardhillholdings.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guardhillholdings.com

736 ms

style.css

57 ms

prototype.js

218 ms

scriptaculous.js

110 ms

script.js

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Guardhillholdings.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) belongs to the original domain Guardhillholdings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

98.0 kB

After Optimization

74.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guardhillholdings.com main page is 98.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 78.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 887 B, which is 11% 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 6.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 102 B

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.6 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. Guard Hill Holdings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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 16.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 465 B

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Guardhillholdings.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 465 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (43%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guard Hill Holdings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guardhillholdings.com

guardhillholdings.com

736 ms

style.css

style.css

57 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

218 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

110 ms

script.js

script.js

110 ms

js

js

73 ms

builder.js

builder.js

57 ms

effects.js

effects.js

61 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

59 ms

controls.js

controls.js

61 ms

slider.js

slider.js

109 ms

sound.js

sound.js

110 ms

title.gif

title.gif

74 ms

bg_start.gif

bg_start.gif

75 ms

bg_footer_start.gif

bg_footer_start.gif

74 ms

navimgbar.gif

navimgbar.gif

110 ms

down-arrow-white.png

down-arrow-white.png

73 ms

right-arrow-gold.png

right-arrow-gold.png

75 ms

right-arrow-grey.png

right-arrow-grey.png

115 ms

vcf-icon-gold.jpg

vcf-icon-gold.jpg

120 ms

vcf-icon-silver.jpg

vcf-icon-silver.jpg

119 ms

bg_start_tall_2.gif

bg_start_tall_2.gif

119 ms

Accessibility Review

guardhillholdings.com accessibility score

93

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.

Best Practices

guardhillholdings.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

guardhillholdings.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Guardhillholdings.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 Guardhillholdings.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

guardhillholdings.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Guard Hill Holdings. 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: