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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blog.recordunion.com

Record Union Blog – The Independent Musician's Resource

Page Load Speed

280 ms in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

154 ms

Page Rendered

72 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Blog Record Union content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blog.recordunion.com

Record Union has helped independent music makers to release their music for more than ten years. Our blog is meant to support our mission to liberate music.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.recordunion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 226 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Blog.recordunion.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

blog.recordunion.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.recordunion.com

54 ms

cf.errors.css

5 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

75 ms

browser-bar.png

5 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.recordunion.com, 17% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (75 ms) relates to the external source Static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

14.4 kB

After Optimization

10.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.recordunion.com main page is 14.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 6.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 3.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Blog Record Union images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Blog.recordunion.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Record Union. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blog.recordunion.com accessibility score

92

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

Best Practices

blog.recordunion.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.recordunion.com SEO score

100

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

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 Blog.recordunion.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 Blog.recordunion.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 Blog Record Union. 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: