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picktheband.com

PickTheBand.com - The world's first fan-run record label.

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

970 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Picktheband.com page load time and found that the first response time was 970 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

picktheband.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

picktheband.com

970 ms

reset.css

69 ms

main.css

137 ms

home.css

136 ms

jquery-1.2.3.min.js

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Picktheband.com, 18% (13 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) belongs to the original domain Picktheband.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

781.1 kB

After Optimization

591.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Picktheband.com main page is 781.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 577.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 12.7 kB, which is 30% 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 34.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 577.6 kB
  • After minification 531.8 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. Pick The Band images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 109.6 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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 85.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Picktheband.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (49%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pick The Band. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

picktheband.com

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970 ms

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69 ms

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137 ms

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136 ms

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208 ms

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SEO Factors

picktheband.com SEO score

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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 Picktheband.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 Picktheband.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pick The Band. 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: