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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

fretmill.com

Fret Mill Music Co. – Your Acoustic Guitar Headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

633 ms

Page Rendered

507 ms

About Website

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Roanoke and Southwestern Virginia’s source for quality acoustic instruments, accessories, lessons and instrument repairs since 1979. We stock new, used and vintage instruments. Please call if you have...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fretmill.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fretmill.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.354

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fretmill.com

105 ms

fretmill.com

33 ms

analytics.js

53 ms

js

85 ms

style.min.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (134 requests) were addressed to the original Fretmill.com, 4% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (177 ms) belongs to the original domain Fretmill.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 426.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fretmill.com main page is 5.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 116.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 96.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Fret Mill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 275.0 kB

  • Original 589.6 kB
  • After minification 586.7 kB
  • After compression 314.6 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 275.0 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 195.7 kB
  • After minification 195.7 kB
  • After compression 165.2 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. Fretmill.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.6 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 119 (81%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fret Mill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 62 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fretmill.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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

fretmill.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

fretmill.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Fretmill.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 Fretmill.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 data is detected on the main page of Fret Mill. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: