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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

50blues.com

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Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

806 ms

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 50blues.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

50blues.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

50blues.com

108 ms

www.50blues.com

389 ms

mainbg.jpg

30 ms

swfobject.js

56 ms

ImpactWebAudio.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original 50blues.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain 50blues.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 744.0 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

769.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of 50blues.com main page is 1.5 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 944.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 157.1 kB

  • Original 206.1 kB
  • After minification 202.0 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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 157.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 356.7 kB

  • Original 944.2 kB
  • After minification 587.5 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. Obviously, 50 Blues needs image optimization as it can save up to 356.7 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 230.1 kB

  • Original 362.8 kB
  • After minification 362.4 kB
  • After compression 132.7 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 230.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (26%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 50 Blues. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

50blues.com

50blues.com

108 ms

www.50blues.com

www.50blues.com

389 ms

mainbg.jpg

mainbg.jpg

30 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

56 ms

ImpactWebAudio.js

ImpactWebAudio.js

55 ms

ImpactWebAudio.js

ImpactWebAudio.js

66 ms

ImpactWebAudio.js

ImpactWebAudio.js

67 ms

arrowleft.gif

arrowleft.gif

95 ms

arrowright.gif

arrowright.gif

110 ms

50bluesfounder.jpg

50bluesfounder.jpg

113 ms

zacksign1.jpg

zacksign1.jpg

113 ms

A.gif

A.gif

114 ms

as_seen_on.jpg

as_seen_on.jpg

115 ms

cover1.jpg

cover1.jpg

334 ms

headerbg.jpg

headerbg.jpg

91 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

94 ms

contentbg.gif

contentbg.gif

92 ms

testimonials002_01.jpg

testimonials002_01.jpg

114 ms

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jimtesti.jpg

115 ms

theoldcreektesti.jpg

theoldcreektesti.jpg

116 ms

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testimonials001_05.jpg

116 ms

testimonials001_06.jpg

testimonials001_06.jpg

312 ms

credentials.jpg

credentials.jpg

316 ms

arrow-left.png

arrow-left.png

314 ms

readthis2.png

readthis2.png

318 ms

shadow.gif

shadow.gif

312 ms

cover4.jpg

cover4.jpg

315 ms

mainbg.jpg

mainbg.jpg

312 ms

bullet_blue.png

bullet_blue.png

290 ms

chordsheetimage.jpg

chordsheetimage.jpg

290 ms

bullet.jpg

bullet.jpg

292 ms

free2.png

free2.png

294 ms

essentialbluesbox2.jpg

essentialbluesbox2.jpg

295 ms

testimonials001_03.jpg

testimonials001_03.jpg

252 ms

headerbg.jpg

headerbg.jpg

250 ms

contentbg.gif

contentbg.gif

250 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

251 ms

arrow_downs.gif

arrow_downs.gif

342 ms

orderbutton.jpg

orderbutton.jpg

239 ms

look-at-testimonials.png

look-at-testimonials.png

239 ms

testimonials005_01.jpg

testimonials005_01.jpg

236 ms

testimonials001_02.jpg

testimonials001_02.jpg

236 ms

testi2.jpg

testi2.jpg

237 ms

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testi4.jpg

239 ms

testimonialsbottom1.jpg

testimonialsbottom1.jpg

239 ms

1solf.png

1solf.png

243 ms

3mulittrack.jpg

3mulittrack.jpg

239 ms

guitartuner.jpg

guitartuner.jpg

239 ms

metpic.png

metpic.png

269 ms

2tabs.gif

2tabs.gif

237 ms

guitarchord1.jpg

guitarchord1.jpg

237 ms

pianosoftware.png

pianosoftware.png

271 ms

button1-share.gif

button1-share.gif

202 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

6 ms

learntoplay.jpg

learntoplay.jpg

243 ms

sheetmusic1.jpg

sheetmusic1.jpg

243 ms

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244 ms

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norisk.gif

244 ms

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greencheck2.png

246 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

135 ms

boost

boost

37 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

58 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

27 ms

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

48 ms

50bluesfullpackage.jpg

50bluesfullpackage.jpg

52 ms

zacksign.GIF

zacksign.GIF

55 ms

jeffedwards.jpg

jeffedwards.jpg

54 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

54 ms

cover51.jpg

cover51.jpg

54 ms

lock.gif

lock.gif

69 ms

Accessibility Review

50blues.com accessibility score

86

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

50blues.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

50blues.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 50blues.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 50blues.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

50blues.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 50 Blues. 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: