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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ventureblocks.com

Simulation to interview customers and identify needs | VentureBlocks

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ventureblocks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ventureblocks.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.268

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ventureblocks.com

202 ms

ventureblocks.com

442 ms

flexslider.min.css

163 ms

line-icons.min.css

245 ms

elegant-icons.min.css

327 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Ventureblocks.com, 2% (1 request) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (901 ms) belongs to the original domain Ventureblocks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 950.5 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

621.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ventureblocks.com main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 923.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 38.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 320.6 kB
  • After minification 296.4 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. Venture Blocks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 653.7 kB

  • Original 923.8 kB
  • After minification 918.0 kB
  • After compression 270.1 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 653.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 234.5 kB

  • Original 283.1 kB
  • After minification 256.1 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. Ventureblocks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 234.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (57%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Venture Blocks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ventureblocks.com

ventureblocks.com

202 ms

ventureblocks.com

ventureblocks.com

442 ms

flexslider.min.css

flexslider.min.css

163 ms

line-icons.min.css

line-icons.min.css

245 ms

elegant-icons.min.css

elegant-icons.min.css

327 ms

lightbox.min.css

lightbox.min.css

246 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

493 ms

theme-cobalt.css

theme-cobalt.css

410 ms

video-js.css

video-js.css

413 ms

cookie-notice.css

cookie-notice.css

326 ms

custom.css

custom.css

327 ms

font-open-sans.css

font-open-sans.css

408 ms

font-raleway.css

font-raleway.css

408 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

409 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

575 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

412 ms

jquery.plugin.min.js

jquery.plugin.min.js

412 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

442 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

461 ms

smooth-scroll.min.js

smooth-scroll.min.js

493 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

495 ms

spectragram.min.js

spectragram.min.js

495 ms

scrollReveal.min.js

scrollReveal.min.js

495 ms

isotope.min.js

isotope.min.js

496 ms

lightbox.min.js

lightbox.min.js

591 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

591 ms

cookie-notice.js

cookie-notice.js

591 ms

custom.js

custom.js

591 ms

jstz.min.js

jstz.min.js

592 ms

video-js.min.js

video-js.min.js

901 ms

close.png

close.png

216 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

218 ms

prev.png

prev.png

218 ms

next.png

next.png

218 ms

ventureblocks-logo-light.png

ventureblocks-logo-light.png

219 ms

ventureblocks-logo-dark.png

ventureblocks-logo-dark.png

298 ms

hero-background.jpg

hero-background.jpg

381 ms

babson-college.png

babson-college.png

300 ms

university-of-southern-california-usc.png

university-of-southern-california-usc.png

300 ms

nyu-stern.png

nyu-stern.png

300 ms

the-george-washington-university.png

the-george-washington-university.png

379 ms

berkeley-haas.png

berkeley-haas.png

381 ms

virginia-tech.png

virginia-tech.png

381 ms

ivey-western-university.png

ivey-western-university.png

382 ms

quinnipiac-university.png

quinnipiac-university.png

552 ms

heidi-neck.png

heidi-neck.png

532 ms

ElegantIcons.woff

ElegantIcons.woff

533 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

397 ms

ventureblocks-overview-cover.png

ventureblocks-overview-cover.png

84 ms

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1 ms

matomo.php

matomo.php

330 ms

Accessibility Review

ventureblocks.com accessibility score

86

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ventureblocks.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ventureblocks.com SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ventureblocks.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ventureblocks.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

ventureblocks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Venture Blocks. 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: