Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

folkblues.co.uk

Folk Blues & Beyond - Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Roy Harper, John Renbourn, Jackson C Frank

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

506 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

About Website

Welcome to folkblues.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Folk Blues best content right away, or after learning these important things about folkblues.co.uk

Website dedicated to the music of Nick Drake,Davey Graham,Bert Jansch,John Renbourn,John Martyn,Jackson C Frank,Roy Harper,etc..

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Key Findings

We analyzed Folkblues.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 506 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

folkblues.co.uk performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

folkblues.co.uk

506 ms

folkblues.css

123 ms

footer.js

234 ms

urchin.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Folkblues.co.uk, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) belongs to the original domain Folkblues.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

150.0 kB

After Optimization

135.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Folkblues.co.uk main page is 150.0 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 128.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 9.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 128.8 kB
  • After minification 124.5 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. Folk Blues images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 989 B

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 989 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 291 B
  • After minification 291 B
  • After compression 251 B

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. Folkblues.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Folk Blues. 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.

Accessibility Review

folkblues.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

folkblues.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

folkblues.co.uk SEO score

50

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Folkblues.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 Folkblues.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Folk Blues. 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: