Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

mentors.fund

Helping Capital Efficient Startups Thrive | Mentors Fund

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

305 ms

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About Website

Visit mentors.fund now to see the best up-to-date Mentors content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mentors.fund

Mentors Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in capital-efficient startups that aim to digitally disrupt traditional businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mentors.fund page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mentors.fund performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.446

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mentors.fund

171 ms

mentors.fund

1223 ms

css

87 ms

custom.css

55 ms

fonts.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Mentors.fund, 11% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Airtable.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mentors.fund.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

815.0 kB

After Optimization

740.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Mentors.fund main page is 815.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 445.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 30.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 445.8 kB
  • After minification 439.0 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. Mentors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 167.5 kB
  • After minification 167.5 kB
  • After compression 141.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 26.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 163.1 kB
  • After compression 154.0 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. Mentors.fund has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (69%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mentors. 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 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mentors.fund accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

mentors.fund 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mentors.fund 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 Mentors.fund 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 Mentors.fund 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 data is detected on the main page of Mentors. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: