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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

metaldescent.com

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

682 ms

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About Website

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Educating the masses on the history of heavy metal music featuring detailed chronicles of metal subgenres, quintessential bands and terminology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metaldescent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metaldescent.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metaldescent.com

1005 ms

layout.css

109 ms

custom.css

138 ms

nextgen_gallery_related_images.css

154 ms

diggdigg-style.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Metaldescent.com, 15% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Metaldescent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metaldescent.com 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. Images take 979.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 40.7 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 52.3 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 40.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 979.9 kB
  • After minification 948.4 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. Metaldescent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 132.4 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 216.2 kB
  • After compression 96.9 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 132.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. Metaldescent.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (56%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metaldescent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metaldescent.com

metaldescent.com

1005 ms

layout.css

layout.css

109 ms

custom.css

custom.css

138 ms

nextgen_gallery_related_images.css

nextgen_gallery_related_images.css

154 ms

diggdigg-style.css

diggdigg-style.css

148 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

157 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

137 ms

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jquery.js

251 ms

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204 ms

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203 ms

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214 ms

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225 ms

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225 ms

gallery.js

gallery.js

304 ms

colorbox.js

colorbox.js

303 ms

vertical.css

vertical.css

303 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

6 ms

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269 ms

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81 ms

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204 ms

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206 ms

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79 ms

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203 ms

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309 ms

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1092 ms

best-metal-songs-2014.jpg

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871 ms

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95 ms

zrt_lookup.html

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151 ms

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75 ms

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209 ms

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69 ms

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352 ms

ga.js

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99 ms

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142 ms

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298 ms

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339 ms

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68 ms

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672 ms

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45 ms

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14 ms

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12 ms

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223 ms

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392 ms

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236 ms

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196 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

metaldescent.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

metaldescent.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

metaldescent.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Metaldescent.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Metaldescent.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

metaldescent.com

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