Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

graymatterexperience.com

The Gray Matter Experience: The Space for Young Black Innovation & Entrepreneurship | Chicago

Page Load Speed

910 ms in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

743 ms

Page Rendered

73 ms

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About Website

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Empowering African American Youth Through Entrepreneurship. The Gray Matter Experience provides a space for African American teens and young adults to develop and launch their own businesses that posi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Graymatterexperience.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 816 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

graymatterexperience.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.graymatterexperience.com

94 ms

minified.js

41 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

75 ms

polyfill.min.js

38 ms

thunderbolt-commons.a475be57.bundle.min.js

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Graymatterexperience.com, 43% (15 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 34% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 651.0 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

652.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Graymatterexperience.com main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 822.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 648.3 kB

  • Original 822.4 kB
  • After minification 820.8 kB
  • After compression 174.1 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 648.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 195.8 kB
  • After minification 195.8 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. Gray Matter Experience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 285.0 kB
  • After minification 285.0 kB
  • After compression 282.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (58%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gray Matter Experience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

graymatterexperience.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

graymatterexperience.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

graymatterexperience.com SEO score

87

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Graymatterexperience.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 Graymatterexperience.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gray Matter Experience. 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: