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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

tapeheads.net

Page Load Speed

23.2 sec in total

First Response

11 sec

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

tapeheads.net screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Tapeheads content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about tapeheads.net

Discuss cassette, reel and other tape and equipment, recording decks, techniques, vintage and modern audio gear, restoration service and repair, and music!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tapeheads.net page load time and found that the first response time was 11 sec and then it took 12.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tapeheads.net performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tapeheads.net

11021 ms

style-db92e3a1-00001.css

355 ms

vbulletin_important.css

358 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

7 ms

connection-min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Tapeheads.net, 8% (2 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Pacificstereo.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11 sec) belongs to the original domain Tapeheads.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.8 kB (32%)

Content Size

269.8 kB

After Optimization

183.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tapeheads.net main page is 269.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 176.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 31.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 176.3 kB
  • After minification 159.9 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. Tapeheads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 46.4 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 32.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Tapeheads.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (22%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tapeheads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tapeheads.net

tapeheads.net

11021 ms

style-db92e3a1-00001.css

style-db92e3a1-00001.css

355 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

358 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

7 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

8 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

356 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

355 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

377 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

388 ms

ucmbanner.jpg

ucmbanner.jpg

226 ms

Donate%20to%20Tapeheads%205.png

Donate%20to%20Tapeheads%205.png

68 ms

IOTW_Project_Kelv.jpg

IOTW_Project_Kelv.jpg

520 ms

Splicit500x80.gif

Splicit500x80.gif

133 ms

2013tapeheadslogo2.gif

2013tapeheadslogo2.gif

139 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

73 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

69 ms

paperclip.gif

paperclip.gif

71 ms

PacificStereoBanner50080.jpg

PacificStereoBanner50080.jpg

133 ms

TubeNirvana50080.jpg

TubeNirvana50080.jpg

131 ms

marrs500x80.gif

marrs500x80.gif

135 ms

AnalogAlley50080.gif

AnalogAlley50080.gif

197 ms

hi550080.jpg

hi550080.jpg

201 ms

stereomanuals50080.jpg

stereomanuals50080.jpg

200 ms

SkywaveBanner50080.jpg

SkywaveBanner50080.jpg

262 ms

Accessibility Review

tapeheads.net accessibility score

59

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

tapeheads.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

SEO Factors

tapeheads.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tapeheads.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Tapeheads.net 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

tapeheads.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tapeheads. 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: