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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

pilerats.com

Pilerats - Australian Music & Lifestyle | Pilerats

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

431 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pilerats content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pilerats.com

Pilerats is an Australian music/lifestyle website, collective and record label, focusing on emerging creatives in music, art, photography and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pilerats.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pilerats.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pilerats.com

1827 ms

styles.css

32 ms

AdtechUrlTargeting-autostart.js

421 ms

DAC.js

84 ms

AdtechUrlTargeting-autostart.js

402 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Pilerats.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Adserver.adtechus.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Pilerats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pilerats.com main page is 4.1 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 59.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 201.4 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Pilerats images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 160.5 kB
  • After compression 116.8 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 43.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 402 B

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Pilerats.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (30%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pilerats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pilerats.com accessibility score

48

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

pilerats.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pilerats.com SEO score

80

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pilerats.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 Pilerats.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 description is not detected on the main page of Pilerats. 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: