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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

howsweetthesound.com

TOUR | How Sweet The Sound l Celebrating Gospel Music

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

56 ms

About Website

Visit howsweetthesound.com now to see the best up-to-date How Sweet The Sound content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about howsweetthesound.com

How Sweet The Sound is a national gospel music competition tour which celebrates the history and sound of gospel music and dance throughout the communities of America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howsweetthesound.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howsweetthesound.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.howsweetthesound.com

48 ms

minified.js

54 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

53 ms

polyfill.min.js

1239 ms

js

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Howsweetthesound.com, 22% (17 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 22% (17 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.5 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Howsweetthesound.com main page is 1.7 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 790.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 469.4 kB

  • Original 596.5 kB
  • After minification 594.6 kB
  • After compression 127.0 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 469.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 137.3 kB

  • Original 790.5 kB
  • After minification 653.2 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, How Sweet The Sound needs image optimization as it can save up to 137.3 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 361.4 kB
  • After minification 359.1 kB
  • After compression 307.6 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 53.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (62%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of How Sweet The Sound. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

howsweetthesound.com accessibility score

88

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

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

howsweetthesound.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

howsweetthesound.com SEO score

99

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 Howsweetthesound.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 Howsweetthesound.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 How Sweet The Sound. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: