Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

blueglow.net

Blueglow Electronics | Vintage Audio & Electronics Repair, & Restoration Hobby

Page Load Speed

732 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

529 ms

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

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40+ years of service, restoration, and repair of Hi-Fi audio & vintage electronics as a hobby... My name is Mark Walker and I've been addicted to electronics since around the age of 10. The hobby...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueglow.net page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 684 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

blueglow.net performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blueglow.net

48 ms

www.blueglowelectronics.com

57 ms

blueglowelectronics.wordpress.com

33 ms

style.css

124 ms

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blueglow.net, 17% (6 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 17% (6 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (214 ms) relates to the external source Blueglowelectronics.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

270.5 kB

After Optimization

209.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Blueglow.net main page is 270.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 120.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 59.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 371 B

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 22.1 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. Blueglow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 355 B

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 120.0 kB
  • After compression 119.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 456 B

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Blueglow.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (69%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blueglow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blueglow.net accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

blueglow.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blueglow.net SEO score

71

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

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 Blueglow.net 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 Blueglow.net 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

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