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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

african-drumbeat.co.uk

African Drum Beat- West African drumming & percussion music

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

Visit african-drumbeat.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date African Drum Beat content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about african-drumbeat.co.uk

Dedicated to West African percussion and drumming rhythms from Senegal, Gambia, Guinee, Ivory-coast, Ghana, and particularly for Djembe, Saba, Kpanlogo drums.

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Key Findings

We analyzed African-drumbeat.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

african-drumbeat.co.uk performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

african-drumbeat.co.uk

1048 ms

ad.php

290 ms

groups_ovr.gif

91 ms

rhythms_ovr.gif

182 ms

mp3s_ovr.gif

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original African-drumbeat.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Img.webring.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain African-drumbeat.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.0 kB (63%)

Content Size

36.2 kB

After Optimization

13.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of African-drumbeat.co.uk main page is 36.2 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. HTML takes 29.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. 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 22.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Drum Beat. 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

african-drumbeat.co.uk

african-drumbeat.co.uk

1048 ms

ad.php

ad.php

290 ms

groups_ovr.gif

groups_ovr.gif

91 ms

rhythms_ovr.gif

rhythms_ovr.gif

182 ms

mp3s_ovr.gif

mp3s_ovr.gif

175 ms

events_ovr.gif

events_ovr.gif

185 ms

teachers_ovr.gif

teachers_ovr.gif

183 ms

makers_ovr.gif

makers_ovr.gif

182 ms

gallery_ovr.gif

gallery_ovr.gif

191 ms

links_ovr.gif

links_ovr.gif

310 ms

feedback_ovr.gif

feedback_ovr.gif

312 ms

goodies_ovr.gif

goodies_ovr.gif

310 ms

mov1st.gif

mov1st.gif

358 ms

join-forum.gif

join-forum.gif

310 ms

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corner_yellow.gif

311 ms

primitive1U.gif

primitive1U.gif

373 ms

pehrul3.gif

pehrul3.gif

370 ms

home_multi.gif

home_multi.gif

13 ms

navbarlogo

navbarlogo

61 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

france.gif

france.gif

370 ms

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germany.gif

369 ms

italy.gif

italy.gif

379 ms

spain.gif

spain.gif

436 ms

greece.gif

greece.gif

460 ms

netherlands.gif

netherlands.gif

463 ms

japan.gif

japan.gif

468 ms

portugal.gif

portugal.gif

451 ms

subscribe_ovr.gif

subscribe_ovr.gif

452 ms

shop-logo-s.gif

shop-logo-s.gif

515 ms

sub-teacher.gif

sub-teacher.gif

528 ms

sub-group.gif

sub-group.gif

530 ms

sub-event.gif

sub-event.gif

539 ms

sub-link.gif

sub-link.gif

550 ms

home_multi.gif

home_multi.gif

14 ms

navbarlogo

navbarlogo

24 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

groups_def.gif

groups_def.gif

94 ms

rhythms_def.gif

rhythms_def.gif

81 ms

mp3s_def.gif

mp3s_def.gif

81 ms

events_def.gif

events_def.gif

92 ms

teachers_def.gif

teachers_def.gif

77 ms

makers_def.gif

makers_def.gif

90 ms

gallery_def.gif

gallery_def.gif

150 ms

links_def.gif

links_def.gif

151 ms

feedback_def.gif

feedback_def.gif

148 ms

goodies_def.gif

goodies_def.gif

165 ms

subscribe_def.gif

subscribe_def.gif

146 ms

join_now_def.gif

join_now_def.gif

147 ms

Accessibility Review

african-drumbeat.co.uk accessibility score

53

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

High

[lang] attributes do not have a valid value

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

Best Practices

african-drumbeat.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

african-drumbeat.co.uk 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 African-drumbeat.co.uk 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 African-drumbeat.co.uk 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

african-drumbeat.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of African Drum Beat. 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: