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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

microcapital.org

MicroCapital - The candid voice for microfinance and other forms of impact investing

Page Load Speed

39.1 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

17.5 sec

Page Rendered

18.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microcapital.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 36.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

microcapital.org performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.microcapital.org

2637 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

460 ms

front_end_style.css

888 ms

dashicons.min.css

912 ms

desktop_style.css

913 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Microcapital.org, 15% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.9 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Microcapital.org main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 898.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 105.3 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 89.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 136.2 kB

  • Original 898.7 kB
  • After minification 762.4 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. Obviously, Micro Capital needs image optimization as it can save up to 136.2 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 320.1 kB

  • Original 479.3 kB
  • After minification 471.1 kB
  • After compression 159.2 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 320.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 131.3 kB

  • Original 211.3 kB
  • After minification 195.3 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. Microcapital.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (47%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Micro Capital. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.microcapital.org

www.microcapital.org

2637 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

460 ms

front_end_style.css

front_end_style.css

888 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

912 ms

desktop_style.css

desktop_style.css

913 ms

form_style.css

form_style.css

910 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

902 ms

css

css

1645 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

864 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

874 ms

style.css

style.css

1392 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1390 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1390 ms

functional.css

functional.css

1572 ms

style-light.css

style-light.css

1390 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

1390 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

1824 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

1824 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

1824 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1770 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1770 ms

all.frontend.min.js

all.frontend.min.js

1550 ms

style.css

style.css

453 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1963 ms

MicroCapitalLogo.jpg

MicroCapitalLogo.jpg

1921 ms

SubscribeNew.jpg

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6427 ms

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6574 ms

twitter_logo.png

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6007 ms

facebook.jpg

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5967 ms

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Microfin_Jul2017.png

4835 ms

SAM_Apr2017.jpg

SAM_Apr2017.jpg

5547 ms

Lakedale_Jun2017.jpg

Lakedale_Jun2017.jpg

5617 ms

EuropeanMicrofinanceWeek2017.jpg

EuropeanMicrofinanceWeek2017.jpg

5616 ms

FrankfurtSchool_Feb2017.jpg

FrankfurtSchool_Feb2017.jpg

5545 ms

VisionMicrofinance_Jul2016.jpg

VisionMicrofinance_Jul2016.jpg

5653 ms

MIX_2016.jpg

MIX_2016.jpg

5773 ms

VERDANT-CAPITAL.png

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6004 ms

Accion.png

Accion.png

6004 ms

VFI.jpg

VFI.jpg

6003 ms

responsability.png

responsability.png

6003 ms

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6161 ms

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FMO.png

6085 ms

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3717 ms

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3717 ms

collect

collect

4930 ms

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6841 ms

Accessibility Review

microcapital.org accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

microcapital.org best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

microcapital.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Microcapital.org 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 Microcapital.org 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 Micro Capital. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: