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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

metalunderground.com

Metal Underground.com - some music was meant to stay underground

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

399 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalunderground.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metalunderground.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalunderground.com

40 ms

www.metalunderground.com

1350 ms

reset.20231012.css

5 ms

main.20231012.css

9 ms

home.20010307.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Metalunderground.com, 7% (1 request) were made to 70000tons.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Metalunderground.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

149.9 kB

After Optimization

127.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Metalunderground.com main page is 149.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 121.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 3.4 kB, which is 12% 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 22.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (25%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Underground. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalunderground.com

metalunderground.com

40 ms

www.metalunderground.com

www.metalunderground.com

1350 ms

reset.20231012.css

reset.20231012.css

5 ms

main.20231012.css

main.20231012.css

9 ms

home.20010307.css

home.20010307.css

8 ms

jquery_1.6.2.min.js

jquery_1.6.2.min.js

17 ms

custom.js

custom.js

10 ms

70000TONSOFMETAL_StaticWebBanner_728x90.PNG

70000TONSOFMETAL_StaticWebBanner_728x90.PNG

160 ms

background_metal_black3.gif

background_metal_black3.gif

4 ms

randimg.cfm

randimg.cfm

1028 ms

metalundergroundcom_logo2.gif

metalundergroundcom_logo2.gif

9 ms

Benighted_photo.jpg

Benighted_photo.jpg

7 ms

70K2025-1.jpg

70K2025-1.jpg

14 ms

print.20231012.css

print.20231012.css

4 ms

Accessibility Review

metalunderground.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

metalunderground.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metalunderground.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Metalunderground.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 Metalunderground.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

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