Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

bluesalley.com

Jazz Supper Club | Blues Alley Jazz | Washington

Page Load Speed

975 ms in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

571 ms

Page Rendered

274 ms

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About Website

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Founded in 1965, Blues Alley is the nation's oldest continuing jazz supper club, having showcased internationally renowned concert hall artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Gr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluesalley.com page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 845 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Bluesalley.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

bluesalley.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluesalley.com

130 ms

style.css

9 ms

menu.css

11 ms

slider_style.css

12 ms

rounded.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Bluesalley.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Instantseats.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

516.4 kB

After Optimization

425.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Bluesalley.com main page is 516.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 402.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 19% 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 402.7 kB
  • After minification 391.5 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. Blues Alley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 50.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Bluesalley.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (36%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blues Alley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bluesalley.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bluesalley.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

bluesalley.com SEO score

91

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bluesalley.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bluesalley.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 Blues Alley. 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: