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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

classical.net

Classical Net - Classical Music Information & Reviews

Page Load Speed

794 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

558 ms

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

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The Classical Net web site offers a comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music subjects including articles and CD/SACD/DVD reviews, composers and their music, the basic repert...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classical.net page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 721 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classical.net performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classical.net

73 ms

main.css

60 ms

fpi.js

5 ms

fpi.js

23 ms

fpi.js

2 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Classical.net, 15% (6 requests) were made to Ap.lijit.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.lijit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) belongs to the original domain Classical.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

535.7 kB

After Optimization

419.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Classical.net main page is 535.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 370.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.2 kB, which is 26% 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 18.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 370.6 kB
  • After minification 342.4 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. Classical images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 69.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 47.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classical. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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73 ms

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60 ms

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5 ms

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23 ms

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2 ms

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18 ms

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29 ms

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309 ms

Accessibility Review

classical.net accessibility score

75

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

classical.net best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

classical.net SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Classical.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Classical.net 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

classical.net

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