Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ionindiemagazine.com

ION Indie Magazine | Music Publication | United States

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

972 ms

ionindiemagazine.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ionindiemagazine.com homepage info - get ready to check ION Indie Magazine best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about ionindiemagazine.com

ION Indie Magazine is a global publication covering the best of independent music worldwide. We get indie music read about, seen, and HEARD!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ionindiemagazine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ionindiemagazine.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,570 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ionindiemagazine.com

213 ms

swfobject.js

65 ms

0074353001457016874

567 ms

index.php

406 ms

music%20back.gif

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Ionindiemagazine.com, 46% (16 requests) were made to S2cdn.joomag.com and 29% (10 requests) were made to Joomag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source S2cdn.joomag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 708.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ionindiemagazine.com main page is 4.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. 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 2.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. ION Indie Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 410.5 kB

  • Original 606.8 kB
  • After minification 606.1 kB
  • After compression 196.2 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 410.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 254.9 kB

  • Original 288.0 kB
  • After minification 287.7 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Ionindiemagazine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ION Indie Magazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ionindiemagazine.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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

ionindiemagazine.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ionindiemagazine.com SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ionindiemagazine.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 Ionindiemagazine.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 ION Indie Magazine. 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: