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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gear4music.co.uk

Gear4music | Musical Instruments, Equipment & Software

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

373 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

gear4music.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gear4music content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gear4music.co.uk

Discover the latest music equipment and musical instruments online. Shop for a wide range of guitars, drums, pianos, live sound & recording gear at Gear4music.

Visit gear4music.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Gear4music.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 373 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gear4music.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gear4music.com

373 ms

js

155 ms

gear4music-desktop.976f6d4eb9d8f9e198a581e2cfb31554ae0f6734c5cea9565abb115779e83899.css

39 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

18 ms

gear4music.976f6d4eb9d8f9e198a581e2cfb31554ae0f6734c5cea9565abb115779e83899.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gear4music.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Static-r2.gear4music.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Widget.freshworks.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (373 ms) relates to the external source Gear4music.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

869.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gear4music.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 566.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 471.0 kB

  • Original 566.5 kB
  • After minification 552.2 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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 471.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 242.5 kB
  • After minification 242.5 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. Gear4music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 443.4 kB
  • After minification 443.4 kB
  • After compression 436.0 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 95.2 kB
  • After minification 95.2 kB
  • After compression 95.2 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. Gear4music.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (51%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gear4music. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gear4music.com

www.gear4music.com

373 ms

js

js

155 ms

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39 ms

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tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

18 ms

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130 ms

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87 ms

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72 ms

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77 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

55 ms

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flag_sprites_v4.1.png

28 ms

tick_darkgreen.png

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55 ms

icon-phone-vertical.svg

icon-phone-vertical.svg

53 ms

our-journey.jpg

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72 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

76 ms

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117 ms

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67 ms

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81 ms

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69 ms

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80 ms

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89 ms

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88 ms

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90 ms

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5.jpg

91 ms

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6.jpg

107 ms

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101 ms

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102 ms

Trustpilot_ratings_4halfstar.svg

Trustpilot_ratings_4halfstar.svg

106 ms

27-kp-en.png

27-kp-en.png

105 ms

MastercardSecurecode.png

MastercardSecurecode.png

116 ms

VerifiedByVisa.png

VerifiedByVisa.png

115 ms

AmexSafekey.png

AmexSafekey.png

161 ms

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143 ms

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142 ms

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209 ms

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210 ms

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209 ms

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3 ms

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161 ms

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161 ms

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159 ms

gear4music.js

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185 ms

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224 ms

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131 ms

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118 ms

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104 ms

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55 ms

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179 ms

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20 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

gear4music.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

gear4music.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gear4music.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Gear4music.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 Gear4music.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

gear4music.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Gear4music. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: