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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

headwaterequity.com

Headwater Equity Partners | Vancouver-Based Middle Market Private Equity Firm

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

679 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Headwater Equity content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about headwaterequity.com

Headwater Equity Partners is a Vancouver-based private equity firm focusing on Canadian small to medium-sized businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Headwaterequity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 679 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

headwaterequity.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.headwaterequity.com

679 ms

style.min.css

62 ms

style.css

182 ms

style.css

158 ms

css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Headwaterequity.com, 35% (15 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 (679 ms) belongs to the original domain Headwaterequity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Headwaterequity.com main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 34.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Headwater Equity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 188.0 kB
  • After minification 188.0 kB
  • After compression 186.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 707 B

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 136.6 kB
  • After compression 135.9 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. Headwaterequity.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (58%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Headwater Equity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.headwaterequity.com

www.headwaterequity.com

679 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

62 ms

style.css

style.css

182 ms

style.css

style.css

158 ms

css

css

49 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

211 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

230 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

173 ms

js

js

66 ms

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165 ms

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jquery.scrollify-2.js

216 ms

ds-script.js

ds-script.js

220 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

228 ms

custom.unified.js

custom.unified.js

311 ms

es6-promise.auto.min.js

es6-promise.auto.min.js

310 ms

api.js

api.js

48 ms

recaptcha.js

recaptcha.js

309 ms

common.js

common.js

310 ms

logo.png

logo.png

139 ms

home_header_image.jpg

home_header_image.jpg

319 ms

Home_Section2_Bike.jpg

Home_Section2_Bike.jpg

140 ms

Home_Section3_Warehouse_darker.jpg

Home_Section3_Warehouse_darker.jpg

275 ms

Home_Section4_Welder.jpg

Home_Section4_Welder.jpg

247 ms

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Home_Section5_TreesMist.jpg

138 ms

Home_Section6_Stock.jpg

Home_Section6_Stock.jpg

246 ms

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194 ms

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276 ms

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62 ms

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255 ms

Accessibility Review

headwaterequity.com accessibility score

82

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

headwaterequity.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

headwaterequity.com SEO score

93

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

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 Headwaterequity.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 Headwaterequity.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

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