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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% 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

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

guitaralliance.com

Guitar Alliance

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

926 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

561 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitaralliance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 926 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitaralliance.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.432

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitaralliance.com

926 ms

css

23 ms

52 ms

70 ms

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Guitaralliance.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (926 ms) belongs to the original domain Guitaralliance.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

469.6 kB

After Optimization

343.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitaralliance.com main page is 469.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 329.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.3 kB

  • Original 106.0 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 91.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 329.7 kB
  • After minification 321.3 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. Guitar Alliance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 26.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 196 B
  • After minification 176 B
  • After compression 160 B

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. Guitaralliance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Alliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guitaralliance.com

guitaralliance.com

926 ms

css

css

23 ms

52 ms

70 ms

151 ms

js

js

6 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

112 ms

1x1.trans.gif

1x1.trans.gif

39 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

107 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

105 ms

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googleplus.png

122 ms

email.png

email.png

122 ms

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vimeo.png

300 ms

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stumbleupon.png

302 ms

thumb-small.png

thumb-small.png

301 ms

thumb-medium.png

thumb-medium.png

276 ms

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78 ms

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95 ms

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274 ms

s-right-s2.png

s-right-s2.png

470 ms

s-left.png

s-left.png

470 ms

titillium-light-webfont.svg

titillium-light-webfont.svg

453 ms

titillium-regular-webfont.svg

titillium-regular-webfont.svg

451 ms

titillium-semibold-webfont.svg

titillium-semibold-webfont.svg

453 ms

Guitar016-720x340.jpg

Guitar016-720x340.jpg

60 ms

in.php

in.php

188 ms

david-allan-coe.jpg

david-allan-coe.jpg

81 ms

fingerstyle-acoustic-rock-image-520x245.jpg

fingerstyle-acoustic-rock-image-520x245.jpg

51 ms

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33 ms

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slide-520x245.jpg

61 ms

Guitar016-160x160.jpg

Guitar016-160x160.jpg

32 ms

fingerstyle-acoustic-rock-image-160x160.jpg

fingerstyle-acoustic-rock-image-160x160.jpg

39 ms

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62 ms

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jatop.jpg

62 ms

dreamstime_xl_49999907-160x160.jpg

dreamstime_xl_49999907-160x160.jpg

70 ms

dreamstime_xl_49999907-520x245.jpg

dreamstime_xl_49999907-520x245.jpg

116 ms

titillium-lightitalic-webfont.svg

titillium-lightitalic-webfont.svg

108 ms

titillium-regularitalic-webfont.svg

titillium-regularitalic-webfont.svg

174 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

174 ms

titillium-light-webfont.woff

titillium-light-webfont.woff

89 ms

titillium-regular-webfont.woff

titillium-regular-webfont.woff

107 ms

titillium-semibold-webfont.woff

titillium-semibold-webfont.woff

174 ms

titillium-lightitalic-webfont.woff

titillium-lightitalic-webfont.woff

38 ms

titillium-regularitalic-webfont.woff

titillium-regularitalic-webfont.woff

42 ms

Accessibility Review

guitaralliance.com accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

guitaralliance.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

guitaralliance.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Guitaralliance.com 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 Guitaralliance.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 Guitar Alliance. 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: