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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

blues.ru

Blues.Ru - Блюз в России. Blues in Russia.

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

blues.ru screenshot

About Website

Visit blues.ru now to see the best up-to-date Blues content for Russia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blues.ru

Main site in Russia dedicated to the blues music. Главный сайт в России, посвященный блюзу.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blues.ru page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.7 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

blues.ru performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blues.ru

1420 ms

jquery.min.js

25 ms

bluesru100x100.gif

373 ms

empty.gif

249 ms

all.js

707 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Blues.ru, 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Liveband.ru. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Blues.ru.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

411.7 kB

After Optimization

346.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Blues.ru main page is 411.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 262.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 36.1 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 36.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 262.2 kB
  • After minification 236.0 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. Blues images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 99.5 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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

blues.ru

blues.ru

1420 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

bluesru100x100.gif

bluesru100x100.gif

373 ms

empty.gif

empty.gif

249 ms

all.js

all.js

707 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

49 ms

flag_en.gif

flag_en.gif

257 ms

echo.gif

echo.gif

257 ms

all.js

all.js

12 ms

all.js

all.js

6 ms

46 ms

harmonica.ru.gif

harmonica.ru.gif

288 ms

ethnotrip.gif

ethnotrip.gif

247 ms

0510Pittman.jpg

0510Pittman.jpg

370 ms

logo.window.png

logo.window.png

639 ms

pacific.png

pacific.png

1161 ms

watch.js

watch.js

553 ms

top100.cnt

top100.cnt

370 ms

bluesad.js

bluesad.js

146 ms

bluesnews.gif

bluesnews.gif

164 ms

blackcat.jpg

blackcat.jpg

247 ms

88x31-sub.gif

88x31-sub.gif

270 ms

jazzinrussia.gif

jazzinrussia.gif

285 ms

down-button.gif

down-button.gif

299 ms

top100.gif

top100.gif

368 ms

yandextrans150x70.gif

yandextrans150x70.gif

371 ms

hit

hit

367 ms

cycounter

cycounter

573 ms

top100.cnt

top100.cnt

508 ms

hit

hit

505 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

655 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

authpic

authpic

129 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

blues.ru accessibility score

42

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

blues.ru best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blues.ru SEO score

62

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

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

    RU

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1251

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blues.ru can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Russian 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 Blues.ru main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1251. 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

blues.ru

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