Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

indiecision.com

Indiecision: Music Magazine: Indian indie music News, MP3s, Interviews, Videos, Giveaways, Awesomeness | Independent Music in India and Elsewhere

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

890 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Indiecision.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

indiecision.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

indiecision.com

276 ms

nh7.in

460 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

51 ms

bjqs-1.3.js

439 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Indiecision.com, 51% (59 requests) were made to Media.nh7.in and 22% (25 requests) were made to Nh7.in. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Nh7.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 914.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Indiecision.com main page is 4.1 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 82.0 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 24.4 kB, which is 23% 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 88.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 174.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB

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. Indiecision images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 367.9 kB

  • Original 544.4 kB
  • After minification 421.0 kB
  • After compression 176.5 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 367.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 283.7 kB

  • Original 339.5 kB
  • After minification 313.8 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Indiecision.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (31%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Indiecision. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

indiecision.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

indiecision.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

SEO Factors

indiecision.com SEO score

77

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Indiecision.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 Indiecision.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 Indiecision. 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: