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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

theymakemusic.com

They Make Music - Interviews with your favorite musicians, DJs, and producers.

Page Load Speed

897 ms in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

672 ms

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

Visit theymakemusic.com now to see the best up-to-date They Make Music content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theymakemusic.com

A continuously-growing collection of interviews with talented musicians, focusing on the tools they use that help shape their sound.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theymakemusic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 844 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theymakemusic.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.427

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theymakemusic.com

53 ms

www.theymakemusic.com

60 ms

css

119 ms

index.css

76 ms

zak7fzq.js

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Theymakemusic.com, 58% (18 requests) were made to Static.theymakemusic.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (197 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

308.7 kB

After Optimization

287.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theymakemusic.com main page is 308.7 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. Images take 278.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 9.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 278.6 kB
  • After minification 266.4 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. They Make Music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (16%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of They Make Music. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

theymakemusic.com

theymakemusic.com

53 ms

www.theymakemusic.com

www.theymakemusic.com

60 ms

css

css

119 ms

index.css

index.css

76 ms

zak7fzq.js

zak7fzq.js

197 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

87 ms

index.include-footer-nb.e226ae.js.gzip

index.include-footer-nb.e226ae.js.gzip

185 ms

ga.js

ga.js

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

tmm.png

tmm.png

196 ms

js

js

160 ms

top-icons.png

top-icons.png

51 ms

proviant-audio-2.jpg

proviant-audio-2.jpg

65 ms

telonius-landscape.jpg

telonius-landscape.jpg

77 ms

deepchild.jpg

deepchild.jpg

67 ms

jack-fell-down.jpg

jack-fell-down.jpg

66 ms

hugo-and-prismatics.jpg

hugo-and-prismatics.jpg

76 ms

garth-be.jpeg

garth-be.jpeg

98 ms

sid-le-rock.jpg

sid-le-rock.jpg

129 ms

xinobi.jpg

xinobi.jpg

128 ms

comic-kids-304.JPG

comic-kids-304.JPG

106 ms

random-soul.jpg

random-soul.jpg

127 ms

robosonic.jpg

robosonic.jpg

109 ms

pablo-bolivar-304.jpg

pablo-bolivar-304.jpg

162 ms

round_table_nights.jpg

round_table_nights.jpg

151 ms

dominic_martin.jpg

dominic_martin.jpg

162 ms

headman.jpg

headman.jpg

165 ms

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jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEwA.ttf

68 ms

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75 ms

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49 ms

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132 ms

Accessibility Review

theymakemusic.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

theymakemusic.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

theymakemusic.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theymakemusic.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 Theymakemusic.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

theymakemusic.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of They Make Music. 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: