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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 81% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

brass-academy.co.uk

The Brass Academy | Brass Instrument Courses for ages 8-18

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

776 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Brass Academy content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about brass-academy.co.uk

The Brass Academy runs courses for brass instrument players aged 8-18 of Grade 1 standard to Grade 8 and Diploma.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brass-academy.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brass-academy.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.brass-academy.co.uk

452 ms

style.css

204 ms

V0AReOf2Jgc

139 ms

css

36 ms

icons.svg

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Brass-academy.co.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Brass-academy.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brass-academy.co.uk 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 19.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Brass Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 178.6 kB
  • After minification 178.6 kB
  • After compression 176.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. Brass-academy.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (31%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brass Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.brass-academy.co.uk

www.brass-academy.co.uk

452 ms

style.css

style.css

204 ms

V0AReOf2Jgc

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139 ms

css

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36 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

244 ms

main-logo.svg

main-logo.svg

553 ms

scroll-down.svg

scroll-down.svg

551 ms

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573 ms

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573 ms

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573 ms

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554 ms

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585 ms

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573 ms

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754 ms

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739 ms

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1022 ms

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1125 ms

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1289 ms

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1102 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

25 ms

core.js

core.js

1130 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

1182 ms

photoswipe.js

photoswipe.js

1287 ms

js

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52 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

23 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

13 ms

base.js

base.js

142 ms

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1115 ms

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149 ms

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134 ms

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51 ms

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56 ms

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36 ms

Create

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123 ms

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15 ms

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155 ms

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38 ms

js

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60 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

collect

collect

46 ms

print.css

print.css

81 ms

Accessibility Review

brass-academy.co.uk 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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

brass-academy.co.uk 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

brass-academy.co.uk SEO score

79

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

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 Brass-academy.co.uk 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 Brass-academy.co.uk 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

brass-academy.co.uk

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