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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

greyspark.com

GreySpark Partners: Business & Technology Consulting, Specialising in Mission-critical Areas of the Capital Markets Industry.

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

513 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greyspark.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greyspark.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,980 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.262

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greyspark.com

1111 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

141 ms

js_composer_front.css

169 ms

css

65 ms

css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Greyspark.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Greyspark.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (30%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greyspark.com main page is 5.4 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 64.7 kB

  • Original 80.5 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 64.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Grey Spark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 914.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 288.4 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 914.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 503.3 kB

  • Original 583.3 kB
  • After minification 511.4 kB
  • After compression 80.1 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. Greyspark.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 503.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (77%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grey Spark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greyspark.com

greyspark.com

1111 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

141 ms

js_composer_front.css

js_composer_front.css

169 ms

css

css

65 ms

css

css

75 ms

styles.css

styles.css

159 ms

cli-style.css

cli-style.css

163 ms

foobox.min.css

foobox.min.css

170 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

164 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

wp-mediaelement.css

217 ms

rgs.css

rgs.css

235 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

239 ms

style.css

style.css

243 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

246 ms

ascend.css

ascend.css

243 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

375 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

311 ms

cookielawinfo.js

cookielawinfo.js

315 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

317 ms

ProgressCircle.js

ProgressCircle.js

318 ms

jquery.vc_chart.js

jquery.vc_chart.js

320 ms

foobox.min.js

foobox.min.js

472 ms

entrymetastyle.css

entrymetastyle.css

343 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

345 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

346 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

401 ms

respond.js

respond.js

425 ms

nicescroll.js

nicescroll.js

501 ms

sticky.js

sticky.js

424 ms

prettyPhoto.js

prettyPhoto.js

426 ms

isotope.min.js

isotope.min.js

554 ms

init.js

init.js

891 ms

infinitescroll.js

infinitescroll.js

578 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

581 ms

wp-mediaelement.js

wp-mediaelement.js

502 ms

nectar-slider.js

nectar-slider.js

1001 ms

js_composer_front.js

js_composer_front.js

582 ms

style.css

style.css

529 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

151 ms

GSP_Logo15_80h1.png

GSP_Logo15_80h1.png

127 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

126 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

385 ms

DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTYnF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTYnF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

32 ms

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

47 ms

OpenSansBold-webfont.woff

OpenSansBold-webfont.woff

384 ms

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

384 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

385 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

9 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

collect

collect

363 ms

diagonal_line.png

diagonal_line.png

91 ms

slider1.png

slider1.png

929 ms

slider3.png

slider3.png

1162 ms

foobox.svg

foobox.svg

178 ms

foobox.woff

foobox.woff

91 ms

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

89 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

156 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

346 ms

Accessibility Review

greyspark.com accessibility score

84

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

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

greyspark.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

greyspark.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 Greyspark.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 Greyspark.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 Grey Spark. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: