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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

barbershopconnections.com

Barbershop Connections - Find arrangements, arrangers, learning tracks, choruses and organizations.

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barbershopconnections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barbershopconnections.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,560 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barbershopconnections.com

121 ms

www.barbershopconnections.com

299 ms

bbsc.css

62 ms

main_javascript.js

120 ms

google_analytics.js

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Barbershopconnections.com, 21% (16 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 17% (13 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

933.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barbershopconnections.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 949.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 195.8 kB
  • After minification 129.9 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. Obviously, Barbershop Connections needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.9 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 154.4 kB

  • Original 949.5 kB
  • After minification 944.3 kB
  • After compression 795.1 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 154.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Barbershopconnections.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (62%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barbershop Connections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

barbershopconnections.com accessibility score

83

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

barbershopconnections.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

barbershopconnections.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barbershopconnections.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Barbershopconnections.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 Barbershop Connections. 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: