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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

songfacts.com

Song Meanings at Songfacts

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

About Website

Welcome to songfacts.com homepage info - get ready to check Songfacts best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about songfacts.com

Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Songfacts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 2.6 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

songfacts.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

songfacts.com

176 ms

www.songfacts.com

504 ms

jquery.js

455 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

392 ms

bootstrap.js

420 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Songfacts.com, 14% (8 requests) were made to Static.songfacts.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to A.pub.network. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (522 ms) belongs to the original domain Songfacts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

932.2 kB

After Optimization

719.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Songfacts.com main page is 932.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 594.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 145.6 kB

  • Original 177.1 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 19.8 kB, which is 11% 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 145.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 594.1 kB
  • After minification 548.2 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. Songfacts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 157.7 kB
  • After compression 138.8 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 20.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Songfacts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (19%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Songfacts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

songfacts.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

songfacts.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

songfacts.com SEO score

92

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Songfacts.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 Songfacts.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 Songfacts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: