Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

guusto.com

Guusto - #1 Employee Recognition and Rewards Platform

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guusto.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guusto.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guusto.com

89 ms

guusto-staging.webflow.61ac913f3.min.css

145 ms

webfont.js

205 ms

1872127.js

380 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.dc5e7f18c8.js

365 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Guusto.com, 60% (57 requests) were made to Global-uploads.webflow.com and 11% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (923 ms) relates to the external source Global-uploads.webflow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 344.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Guusto.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. 85% 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. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 68.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 276.3 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Guusto images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 503 B

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. Guusto.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (31%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guusto. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

guusto.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

guusto.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

guusto.com SEO score

99

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 Guusto.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 Guusto.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 data is detected on the main page of Guusto. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: