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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thesound.co.nz

The Sound: Your Home for Classic Rock | rova

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

thesound.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Visit thesound.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date The Sound content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thesound.co.nz

The Sound plays the soundtrack of our lives - the greatest classic rock music ever made.

Visit thesound.co.nz

Key Findings

We analyzed Thesound.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 8.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesound.co.nz performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesound.co.nz

15 ms

thesound.co.nz

242 ms

www.thesound.co.nz

10 ms

www.thesound.co.nz

414 ms

home.html

2 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Thesound.co.nz, 5% (4 requests) were made to Firebase.mediaworks.nz and 5% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesound.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thesound.co.nz main page is 3.1 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. 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 179.2 kB

  • Original 205.2 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 179.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. The Sound images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 220.5 kB
  • After minification 220.4 kB
  • After compression 198.0 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 28 (41%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sound. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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15 ms

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242 ms

www.thesound.co.nz

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10 ms

www.thesound.co.nz

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414 ms

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2 ms

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2057 ms

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814 ms

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1011 ms

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42 ms

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40 ms

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999 ms

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185 ms

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817 ms

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441 ms

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650 ms

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658 ms

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896 ms

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897 ms

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897 ms

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2 ms

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258 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

14 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

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14 ms

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52 ms

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389 ms

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1163 ms

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554 ms

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2571 ms

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2764 ms

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2800 ms

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2760 ms

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2764 ms

pubads_impl.js

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29 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

98 ms

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2627 ms

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92 ms

js

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129 ms

home.html

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39 ms

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2343 ms

RC1ce3a15f0edb4181941dfa9c695da1f0-source.min.js

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14 ms

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117 ms

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16 ms

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17 ms

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109 ms

destination

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35 ms

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84 ms

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842 ms

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846 ms

Accessibility Review

thesound.co.nz accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

thesound.co.nz 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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesound.co.nz SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesound.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 Thesound.co.nz 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

thesound.co.nz

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Sound. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: