Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

musicworks.co.nz

Music Works

Page Load Speed

20.1 sec in total

First Response

765 ms

Resources Loaded

18.9 sec

Page Rendered

477 ms

musicworks.co.nz screenshot

About Website

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MusicWorks is New Zealand's largest musical instrument retail group, with over 30 stores nationwide from Whangarei to Invercargill. Now with an online musical instrument store as well, we've got you c...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Musicworks.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 765 ms and then it took 19.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

musicworks.co.nz performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.522

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

musicworks.co.nz

765 ms

www.musicworks.co.nz

6336 ms

font-awesome.min.css

161 ms

css.min.20160307024438.css

1108 ms

js.min.20131016113326.js

1694 ms

Our browser made a total of 273 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (205 requests) were addressed to the original Musicworks.co.nz, 13% (36 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (12 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Musicworks.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 907.8 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Musicworks.co.nz main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 288.0 kB

  • Original 313.1 kB
  • After minification 209.1 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 104.0 kB, which is 33% 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 288.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Music Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 492.3 kB

  • Original 713.7 kB
  • After minification 711.5 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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 492.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 108.2 kB

  • Original 135.0 kB
  • After minification 134.9 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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. Musicworks.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (17%)

Requests Now

267

After Optimization

221

The browser has sent 267 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Music Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

musicworks.co.nz accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

musicworks.co.nz best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

musicworks.co.nz SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Musicworks.co.nz 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 Musicworks.co.nz main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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