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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sparkyard.co

Sparkyard: Resources, tools & information for entrepreneurs

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

sparkyard.co screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sparkyard content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sparkyard.co

Sparkyard is where entrepreneurs go to get connected to the resources they need to help launch, fund and grow their business. Get connected.

Visit sparkyard.co

Key Findings

We analyzed Sparkyard.co page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 4.9 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

sparkyard.co performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sparkyard.co

103 ms

sparkyard.co

131 ms

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262 ms

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Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (132 requests) were addressed to the original Sparkyard.co, 9% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sparkyard.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 657.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sparkyard.co 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 766.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 180.6 kB

  • Original 223.1 kB
  • After minification 219.9 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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 180.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 205.0 kB
  • After minification 200.8 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. Sparkyard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 525.3 kB
  • After minification 525.3 kB
  • After compression 471.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 418.9 kB

  • Original 766.1 kB
  • After minification 765.3 kB
  • After compression 347.2 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. Sparkyard.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 418.9 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (78%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sparkyard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 54 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sparkyard.co accessibility score

93

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

sparkyard.co 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sparkyard.co SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sparkyard.co 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 Sparkyard.co 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

sparkyard.co

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