Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

guitarhippies.com

| Guitar Songs Masters - One of the World's Top Five Most-Read Blogs for Guitarists

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

631 ms

Page Rendered

349 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarhippies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 980 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitarhippies.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitarhippies.com

192 ms

autoptimize_70cd3f51cb088c57732e5d3c43e0e02b.css

12 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

css

25 ms

pinit.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarhippies.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Forms.aweber.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (404 ms) relates to the external source Hit2map.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 438.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

594.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Guitarhippies.com main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 452.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 111.7 kB
  • After minification 111.7 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 87.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 452.2 kB
  • After minification 438.8 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. Guitar Hippies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 211.7 kB

  • Original 312.8 kB
  • After minification 312.1 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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 211.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 156.1 kB
  • After minification 155.6 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. Guitarhippies.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Hippies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

guitarhippies.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

guitarhippies.com 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

guitarhippies.com SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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 Guitarhippies.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 Guitarhippies.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 Guitar Hippies. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: