Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

startgbc.com

startGBC | Your Gateway To Entrepreneurship | George Brown College

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

853 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

startgbc.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startgbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 853 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

startgbc.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.23

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.startgbc.com

853 ms

0851b4c8ccab2000ba6c801d47270be8016a93bb1671f542c9112780078b4cb11fbfe0e4dc2cb67e

144 ms

js

98 ms

style.css

208 ms

style.min.css

298 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Startgbc.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to E1.envoke.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Startgbc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Startgbc.com main page is 3.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 74.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 324.1 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, StartGBC needs image optimization as it can save up to 324.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 268.2 kB
  • After minification 268.1 kB
  • After compression 111.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 157.3 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 707.8 kB

  • Original 834.4 kB
  • After minification 822.5 kB
  • After compression 126.6 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. Startgbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 707.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (52%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of StartGBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

startgbc.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

startgbc.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

startgbc.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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