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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

guitarcontrol.com

Learn all kinds of instruments with Guitar Control

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarcontrol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 291 ms and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitarcontrol.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.25

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitarcontrol.com

291 ms

www.guitarcontrol.com

2444 ms

style.css

379 ms

jquery-ui.css

19 ms

reset.min.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarcontrol.com, 10% (10 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Ssl.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Guitarcontrol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.2 kB (49%)

Content Size

693.2 kB

After Optimization

355.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarcontrol.com main page is 693.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 266.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 72.0 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 72.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 209.8 kB
  • After minification 203.4 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. Guitar Control images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 155.3 kB

  • Original 266.3 kB
  • After minification 251.4 kB
  • After compression 111.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 155.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 104.6 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 112.8 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Guitarcontrol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (55%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Control. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guitarcontrol.com

guitarcontrol.com

291 ms

www.guitarcontrol.com

www.guitarcontrol.com

2444 ms

style.css

style.css

379 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

19 ms

reset.min.css

reset.min.css

151 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

151 ms

style.css

style.css

151 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

43 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

404 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.css

449 ms

sidebar-optin.css

sidebar-optin.css

268 ms

popup-optin.css

popup-optin.css

269 ms

cleantalk_nocache.js

cleantalk_nocache.js

75 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

183 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

261 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

225 ms

resizable.min.js

resizable.min.js

387 ms

draggable.min.js

draggable.min.js

451 ms

button.min.js

button.min.js

405 ms

position.min.js

position.min.js

448 ms

dialog.min.js

dialog.min.js

451 ms

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jquery.ck.min.js

408 ms

ninjapopups.min.js

ninjapopups.min.js

684 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

702 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

15 ms

cleantalk_nocache.js

cleantalk_nocache.js

525 ms

ga.js

ga.js

91 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

68 ms

collect

collect

63 ms

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di.js

22 ms

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90 ms

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13 ms

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12 ms

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88 ms

gc-logo-glow.png

gc-logo-glow.png

470 ms

search-icon.gif

search-icon.gif

183 ms

lock-login.png

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183 ms

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669 ms

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thumb.php

325 ms

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325 ms

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326 ms

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325 ms

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594 ms

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thumb.php

667 ms

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667 ms

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thumb.php

667 ms

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thumb.php

667 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

713 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

764 ms

catalog-link.png

catalog-link.png

664 ms

all.js

all.js

25 ms

follow_button.html

follow_button.html

29 ms

platform.js

platform.js

83 ms

top-nav-spacer.gif

top-nav-spacer.gif

635 ms

bg-mainNav.gif

bg-mainNav.gif

676 ms

main-nav-spacer.gif

main-nav-spacer.gif

727 ms

anivers_regular-webfont.woff

anivers_regular-webfont.woff

1199 ms

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784 ms

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post-date-arrow.gif

785 ms

iconComment.gif

iconComment.gif

784 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

55 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

67 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

64 ms

follow

follow

170 ms

subscribe_embed

subscribe_embed

167 ms

bg-dark-title.gif

bg-dark-title.gif

706 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

1133 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

52 ms

api.js

api.js

81 ms

core:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js

core:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js

269 ms

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244 ms

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www-subscribe-embed-vflWJjAep.css

255 ms

www-subscribe-embed.js

www-subscribe-embed.js

308 ms

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138 ms

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203 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

164 ms

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84 ms

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48 ms

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gl.js

gl.js

463 ms

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218 ms

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205 ms

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113 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_2

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25 ms

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border_3.gif

58 ms

subscribe_embed

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102 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

8 ms

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border_3.gif

55 ms

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54 ms

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54 ms

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54 ms

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50 ms

www-subscribe-embed-card.js

www-subscribe-embed-card.js

84 ms

Accessibility Review

guitarcontrol.com accessibility score

93

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

guitarcontrol.com 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

guitarcontrol.com SEO score

98

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Guitarcontrol.com 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 Guitarcontrol.com 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

guitarcontrol.com

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