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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

johnknowles.com

John Knowles - Guitarist - FingerStyle Quarterly

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

606 ms

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Johnknowles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 751 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

johnknowles.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

johnknowles.com

264 ms

edge-l.jpg

131 ms

bg-700.jpg

202 ms

jkheader01.jpg

260 ms

newsletterfront-200.jpg

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Johnknowles.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (342 ms) belongs to the original domain Johnknowles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

114.3 kB

After Optimization

97.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Johnknowles.com main page is 114.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 109.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 799 B, which is 15% 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 3.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 96.0 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. Obviously, John Knowles needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of John Knowles. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

johnknowles.com

johnknowles.com

264 ms

edge-l.jpg

edge-l.jpg

131 ms

bg-700.jpg

bg-700.jpg

202 ms

jkheader01.jpg

jkheader01.jpg

260 ms

newsletterfront-200.jpg

newsletterfront-200.jpg

196 ms

line-500.jpg

line-500.jpg

165 ms

line-250.jpg

line-250.jpg

191 ms

waltzforever.jpg

waltzforever.jpg

342 ms

edge-r.jpg

edge-r.jpg

293 ms

Accessibility Review

johnknowles.com accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

johnknowles.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

johnknowles.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Johnknowles.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 Johnknowles.com 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

johnknowles.com

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