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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

ricksmusicalinstruments.com

Rick's Musical Instruments | One-Stop Music Store | Rhode Island & MA

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

339 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricksmusicalinstruments.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ricksmusicalinstruments.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricksmusicalinstruments.com

43 ms

www.ricksmusicalinstruments.com

251 ms

font-awesome.min.css

78 ms

css2

76 ms

all.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Ricksmusicalinstruments.com, 66% (111 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (11 requests) were made to Media.musicshop360.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) relates to the external source Media.musicshop360.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 258.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ricksmusicalinstruments.com main page is 2.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 94.1 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 124.4 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 94.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 155.3 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Rick S Musical Instruments images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 461.9 kB
  • After minification 459.9 kB
  • After compression 453.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 45 B

  • Original 131.3 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 131.3 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. Ricksmusicalinstruments.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (58%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rick S Musical Instruments. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ricksmusicalinstruments.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ricksmusicalinstruments.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ricksmusicalinstruments.com SEO score

79

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

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 Ricksmusicalinstruments.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 Ricksmusicalinstruments.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 Rick S Musical Instruments. 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: