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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% 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

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

watsonguitars.net

Watson Guitars - hand built custom guitars and basses

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

802 ms

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

Visit watsonguitars.net now to see the best up-to-date Watson Guitars content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about watsonguitars.net

Hand Made Guitars and Bass Guitars built in California by Scottish luthier Alex Watson, custom bass guitars, custom guitars

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watsonguitars.net page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 991 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watsonguitars.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watsonguitars.net

181 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

64 ms

AC_ActiveX.js

127 ms

background_stripe.jpg

64 ms

shadow_l.jpg

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Watsonguitars.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (362 ms) belongs to the original domain Watsonguitars.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

118.6 kB

After Optimization

105.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Watsonguitars.net main page is 118.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 100.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 2.1 kB, which is 13% 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 12.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 100.8 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. Watson Guitars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 350 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 350 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (23%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watson Guitars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

watsonguitars.net

watsonguitars.net

181 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

64 ms

AC_ActiveX.js

AC_ActiveX.js

127 ms

background_stripe.jpg

background_stripe.jpg

64 ms

shadow_l.jpg

shadow_l.jpg

62 ms

dot_clear.gif

dot_clear.gif

136 ms

wg_small.jpg

wg_small.jpg

137 ms

shadow_r.jpg

shadow_r.jpg

137 ms

watson_intro.jpg

watson_intro.jpg

179 ms

home_off.jpg

home_off.jpg

137 ms

about_off.jpg

about_off.jpg

138 ms

instruments_off.jpg

instruments_off.jpg

181 ms

gallery_off.jpg

gallery_off.jpg

183 ms

options_off.jpg

options_off.jpg

181 ms

contact_off.jpg

contact_off.jpg

182 ms

links_off.jpg

links_off.jpg

183 ms

whywatson_off.jpg

whywatson_off.jpg

240 ms

philosophy_off.jpg

philosophy_off.jpg

240 ms

design_off.jpg

design_off.jpg

241 ms

quality_off.jpg

quality_off.jpg

241 ms

service_off.jpg

service_off.jpg

242 ms

news_off.jpg

news_off.jpg

243 ms

s_map_off.jpg

s_map_off.jpg

300 ms

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d19_th.jpg

299 ms

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068_f93_th.jpg

300 ms

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301 ms

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301 ms

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303 ms

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359 ms

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362 ms

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360 ms

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089_63_th.jpg

361 ms

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061_57_th.jpg

361 ms

philosophy_over.gif

philosophy_over.gif

61 ms

sitemap_over.gif

sitemap_over.gif

61 ms

whywatson_over.gif

whywatson_over.gif

62 ms

design_over.gif

design_over.gif

63 ms

workmanship_over.gif

workmanship_over.gif

61 ms

news_over.gif

news_over.gif

63 ms

service_over.jpg

service_over.jpg

121 ms

quality_over.jpg

quality_over.jpg

121 ms

Accessibility Review

watsonguitars.net accessibility score

54

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

watsonguitars.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

SEO Factors

watsonguitars.net SEO score

67

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Watsonguitars.net 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 Watsonguitars.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

watsonguitars.net

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