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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

balancedscale.com

Balanced Scale Media | Independent Record Label

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

732 ms

Page Rendered

636 ms

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About Website

Welcome to balancedscale.com homepage info - get ready to check Balanced Scale best content right away, or after learning these important things about balancedscale.com

Austin-based independent record label. Currently featuring mozworth's new single 'Story of an Artist'.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balancedscale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balancedscale.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balancedscale.com

34 ms

www.balancedscale.com

103 ms

css

68 ms

simple-line-icons.css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Balancedscale.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Widget.sndcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) belongs to the original domain Balancedscale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 603.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balancedscale.com main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 11.3 kB, which is 41% 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 24.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 573.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, Balanced Scale needs image optimization as it can save up to 573.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. Balancedscale.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (63%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balanced Scale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balancedscale.com

balancedscale.com

34 ms

www.balancedscale.com

www.balancedscale.com

103 ms

css

css

68 ms

simple-line-icons.css

simple-line-icons.css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

143 ms

animate.css

animate.css

54 ms

layout.css

layout.css

80 ms

221 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

156 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

100 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

94 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

98 ms

jquery.back-to-top.js

jquery.back-to-top.js

125 ms

jquery.wow.min.js

jquery.wow.min.js

178 ms

jquery.parallax.min.js

jquery.parallax.min.js

180 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

178 ms

jquery.masonry.pkgd.min.js

jquery.masonry.pkgd.min.js

279 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

200 ms

layout.js

layout.js

190 ms

progress-bar.js

progress-bar.js

287 ms

masonry.js

masonry.js

201 ms

wow.js

wow.js

282 ms

balance-scale-solid.svg

balance-scale-solid.svg

284 ms

balance-scale-solid-dark.svg

balance-scale-solid-dark.svg

285 ms

loftus.jpg

loftus.jpg

322 ms

fivestoneshealth.png

fivestoneshealth.png

518 ms

mydoula.png

mydoula.png

519 ms

namco.png

namco.png

523 ms

craftcards.png

craftcards.png

520 ms

widget-7-5c7fc4d11d15.js

widget-7-5c7fc4d11d15.js

104 ms

widget-8-af988f73d8db.js

widget-8-af988f73d8db.js

103 ms

widget-9-6c79c9dd8ce8.js

widget-9-6c79c9dd8ce8.js

122 ms

font

font

240 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

211 ms

logo-200x120-3190df52.png

logo-200x120-3190df52.png

16 ms

Accessibility Review

balancedscale.com accessibility score

93

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

balancedscale.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balancedscale.com SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    LA

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balancedscale.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latin is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Balancedscale.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 Balanced Scale. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: