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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

indiecharts.com

Indie Music Charts  

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

588 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

Welcome to indiecharts.com homepage info - get ready to check Indie Charts best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about indiecharts.com

We are the Charts! Music Charts for Indie and Unsigned Artists. Music industry professionals use Indie Charts to discover Indie and Unsigned music Artists. The alternative music charts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Indiecharts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 588 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

indiecharts.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

indiecharts.com

588 ms

swfobject.js

140 ms

Ajax_Web_Links.js

142 ms

Ajax_Minipost.js

151 ms

Ajax_Chart.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Indiecharts.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Indiecharts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

890.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Indiecharts.com main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 622.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 177.2 kB

  • Original 198.0 kB
  • After minification 184.7 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 177.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 622.5 kB
  • After minification 577.2 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. Indie Charts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 299.8 kB
  • After minification 298.0 kB
  • After compression 292.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (13%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

91

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Indie Charts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

indiecharts.com

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588 ms

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140 ms

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142 ms

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151 ms

Ajax_Chart.js

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150 ms

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149 ms

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72 ms

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100 ms

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99 ms

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ads

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784 ms

Accessibility Review

indiecharts.com accessibility score

57

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

Best Practices

indiecharts.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

indiecharts.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Indiecharts.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 Indiecharts.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

indiecharts.com

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