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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gramophone.co.uk

Gramophone – classical music magazine, podcast and reviews | Gramophone

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

About Website

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The best classical music reviews, news, playlists, features and blogs from Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gramophone.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gramophone.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,610 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.235

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gramophone.co.uk

296 ms

www.gramophone.co.uk

1185 ms

script.js

107 ms

fa7e9355fa5b9314056e28c450532c93.js

488 ms

bootstrap.min.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 198 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Gramophone.co.uk, 25% (49 requests) were made to Macdndev.azureedge.net and 6% (12 requests) were made to T725.gramophone.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gramophone.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 697.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gramophone.co.uk main page is 9.4 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 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 163.5 kB

  • Original 181.2 kB
  • After minification 144.4 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.8 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 163.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 456.4 kB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Gramophone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 237.0 kB
  • After minification 236.9 kB
  • After compression 160.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 76.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 399 B

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Gramophone.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (35%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

88

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gramophone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gramophone.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

gramophone.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gramophone.co.uk SEO score

69

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

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use 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 Gramophone.co.uk 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 Gramophone.co.uk 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 Gramophone. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: