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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

musictherapy.org

American Music Therapy Association | American Music Therapy Association (AMTA)

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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The American Music Therapy Association is a resource and organization dedicated to professional music therapists. Benefits gained from using music as a tool include help educating, reducing stress, an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Musictherapy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 106 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

musictherapy.org performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

musictherapy.org

106 ms

www.musictherapy.org

179 ms

www.musictherapy.org

292 ms

style.css

77 ms

jquery-core-plugins.js

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Musictherapy.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) belongs to the original domain Musictherapy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Musictherapy.org main page is 2.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 44.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 949.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Music Therapy needs image optimization as it can save up to 949.8 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 217.8 kB
  • After minification 217.8 kB
  • After compression 157.3 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 60.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Musictherapy.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (43%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Music Therapy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

musictherapy.org accessibility score

53

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

musictherapy.org best practices score

58

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

musictherapy.org 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Musictherapy.org 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 Musictherapy.org 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 description is not detected on the main page of Music Therapy. 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: