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Welcome to business.gov homepage info - get ready to check Business best content right away, or after learning these important things about business.gov
We support America's small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business.
Visit business.govWe analyzed Business.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.
business.gov performance score
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Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Business.gov, 11% (21 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Business.usa.gov.
Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (70%)
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In fact, the total size of Business.gov main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 191.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.3 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 191.6 kB or 84% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 19.8 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. Business images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 1.1 MB
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 1.1 MB or 71% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 734.8 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. Business.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 734.8 kB or 87% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 120 (70%)
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The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 67 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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business.gov accessibility score
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
Impact
Issue
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
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
business.gov best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Page has valid source maps
business.gov SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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Issue
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
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
Document uses legible font sizes
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Business.gov 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 Business.gov 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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Business. 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: