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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

alisdair.com

Alisdair MacRae Birch - Jazz Guitarist | Bassist

Page Load Speed

589 ms in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

367 ms

Page Rendered

78 ms

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About Website

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Official website of NY-based British-born jazz educator, arranger and recording artist Alisdair MacRae Birch.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alisdair.com page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 445 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alisdair.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alisdair.com

144 ms

styles.css

37 ms

home_01.gif

103 ms

home_02.gif

71 ms

left_navbar_01.gif

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Alisdair.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (221 ms) belongs to the original domain Alisdair.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.4 kB (74%)

Content Size

8.6 kB

After Optimization

2.3 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alisdair.com main page is 8.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 8.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 6.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 338 B
  • After minification 338 B
  • After compression 282 B

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. Alisdair.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (23%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alisdair. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alisdair.com

alisdair.com

144 ms

styles.css

styles.css

37 ms

home_01.gif

home_01.gif

103 ms

home_02.gif

home_02.gif

71 ms

left_navbar_01.gif

left_navbar_01.gif

72 ms

left_navbar_02.gif

left_navbar_02.gif

73 ms

left_navbar_03.gif

left_navbar_03.gif

70 ms

left_navbar_04.gif

left_navbar_04.gif

72 ms

left_navbar_05.gif

left_navbar_05.gif

107 ms

left_navbar_06.gif

left_navbar_06.gif

107 ms

left_navbar_07.gif

left_navbar_07.gif

108 ms

left_navbar_08.gif

left_navbar_08.gif

111 ms

left_navbar_09.gif

left_navbar_09.gif

110 ms

left_navbar_10.gif

left_navbar_10.gif

140 ms

left_navbar_11.gif

left_navbar_11.gif

143 ms

left_navbar_12.gif

left_navbar_12.gif

144 ms

left_navbar_13.gif

left_navbar_13.gif

143 ms

left_navbar_14.gif

left_navbar_14.gif

146 ms

left_navbar_15.gif

left_navbar_15.gif

146 ms

home_04.gif

home_04.gif

195 ms

home_05.gif

home_05.gif

211 ms

home_06.gif

home_06.gif

187 ms

home_07.gif

home_07.gif

183 ms

home_08.gif

home_08.gif

185 ms

home_09.gif

home_09.gif

183 ms

home_10.gif

home_10.gif

221 ms

home_12.gif

home_12.gif

220 ms

Accessibility Review

alisdair.com accessibility score

46

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

alisdair.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

alisdair.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alisdair.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 Alisdair.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

alisdair.com

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