Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

mutools.com

Enjoy Making Music | MuLab Modular DAW, Synth and Effect Plugin

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

mutools.com screenshot

About Website

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MuTools makes music software and synth and effect plug-ins for music creation and production.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mutools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mutools.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mutools.com

59 ms

style.css

23 ms

js-image-slider.css

19 ms

js-image-slider.js

37 ms

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Mutools.com, 18% (8 requests) were made to W.soundcloud.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Mutools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 769.9 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Mutools.com main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 624.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.3 kB, which is 38% 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 16.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 611.8 kB
  • After minification 584.8 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. Mu Tools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 356.0 kB

  • Original 518.6 kB
  • After minification 518.5 kB
  • After compression 162.6 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 356.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 370.4 kB

  • Original 624.3 kB
  • After minification 622.3 kB
  • After compression 253.9 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. Mutools.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 370.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (48%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mu Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mutools.com accessibility score

54

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

mutools.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mutools.com SEO score

62

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

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 Mutools.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 Mutools.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 Mu Tools. 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: