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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

boldersounds.com

Bolder Sounds, Creative Sampler Libraries Since 1990

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

497 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boldersounds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 497 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boldersounds.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boldersounds.com

497 ms

stylesheet.css

446 ms

stylesheet_jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

442 ms

stylesheet_main_banner.css

443 ms

jscript_jquery-1.4.2.min.js

499 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Boldersounds.com, 98% (43 requests) were made to Boldersounds.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (786 ms) relates to the external source Boldersounds.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

854.2 kB

After Optimization

662.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boldersounds.com main page is 854.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 664.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 5.3 kB, which is 19% 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 23.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

  • Original 664.7 kB
  • After minification 613.6 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. Bolder Sounds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 118.9 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 81.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Boldersounds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (44%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bolder Sounds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

boldersounds.com

boldersounds.com

497 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

446 ms

stylesheet_jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

stylesheet_jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

442 ms

stylesheet_main_banner.css

stylesheet_main_banner.css

443 ms

jscript_jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jscript_jquery-1.4.2.min.js

499 ms

jscript_jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

jscript_jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

450 ms

jscript_jquery_cycle_all.min.js

jscript_jquery_cycle_all.min.js

448 ms

jscript_process_popups.js

jscript_process_popups.js

574 ms

header_bg.png

header_bg.png

102 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

102 ms

cart_section_bg.png

cart_section_bg.png

97 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

103 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

102 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

103 ms

search_header_bg.gif

search_header_bg.gif

160 ms

search_header_button.gif

search_header_button.gif

166 ms

search_arrow.gif

search_arrow.gif

166 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

167 ms

home_icon.png

home_icon.png

166 ms

sign_in_right.png

sign_in_right.png

167 ms

sign_in_left.png

sign_in_left.png

223 ms

main_bg.gif

main_bg.gif

228 ms

main_sidebox_header_left.gif

main_sidebox_header_left.gif

230 ms

main_sidebox_header_right.gif

main_sidebox_header_right.gif

234 ms

pic5d.jpg

pic5d.jpg

539 ms

pic4d.jpg

pic4d.jpg

414 ms

pic1b.jpg

pic1b.jpg

509 ms

pic2d.jpg

pic2d.jpg

598 ms

%3C

%3C

301 ms

%3C

%3C

302 ms

green_v2a.gif

green_v2a.gif

548 ms

HotO.gif

HotO.gif

487 ms

mandolin.gif

mandolin.gif

602 ms

E_Sitar_02.gif

E_Sitar_02.gif

613 ms

Dan_Tranh.gif

Dan_Tranh.gif

633 ms

Banjo_V3.gif

Banjo_V3.gif

661 ms

mini%20sax.gif

mini%20sax.gif

734 ms

stars_5.gif

stars_5.gif

661 ms

virg-Q2.gif

virg-Q2.gif

786 ms

washer.gif

washer.gif

752 ms

footer_bg.gif

footer_bg.gif

696 ms

footer_bg_up.png

footer_bg_up.png

724 ms

footer_bg_down.png

footer_bg_down.png

725 ms

print_stylesheet.css

print_stylesheet.css

68 ms

Accessibility Review

boldersounds.com accessibility score

67

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

boldersounds.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

boldersounds.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boldersounds.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 Boldersounds.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

boldersounds.com

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