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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

garrigus.com

Scott R. Garrigus - Author, Musician, Multimedia Developer - Author of the Cakewalk SONAR Power! Book Series

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Garrigus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 1.2 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

garrigus.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.garrigus.com

203 ms

xr_main.css

86 ms

xr_text.css

131 ms

roe.js

210 ms

widgets.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Garrigus.com, 33% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (431 ms) belongs to the original domain Garrigus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

243.8 kB

After Optimization

193.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Garrigus.com main page is 243.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 205.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 15.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 205.5 kB
  • After minification 182.8 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, Garrigus needs image optimization as it can save up to 22.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 11.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 508 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. Garrigus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (36%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garrigus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

garrigus.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

garrigus.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

garrigus.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Garrigus.com 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 Garrigus.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Garrigus. 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: