Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

chimesmusic.com

Chimes Music Ltd. London Music Shops at the Barbican, and South Kensington.

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

About Website

Welcome to chimesmusic.com homepage info - get ready to check Chimes Music best content right away, or after learning these important things about chimesmusic.com

Our two London shops offer a diverse selection of sheet music, a range of instruments, and provide a classical instrument rental and repair service. Available to collect in store or post out to you...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chimesmusic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chimesmusic.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chimesmusic.com

51 ms

chimesmusic.com

844 ms

922dbbca2a.js

199 ms

plugin.bundle.js

570 ms

bundle.min.js

366 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Chimesmusic.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Chimesmusic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (18%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Chimesmusic.com main page is 5.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 104.8 kB

  • Original 122.9 kB
  • After minification 119.4 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 104.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 968.4 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB

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, Chimes Music needs image optimization as it can save up to 968.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 140.2 kB
  • After minification 140.2 kB
  • After compression 140.2 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

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chimes Music. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

chimesmusic.com accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

chimesmusic.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chimesmusic.com SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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