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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

rootsandrhythm.com

Roots & Rhythm - Thousands of roots music CDs on line

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

About Website

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Roots & Rhythm - your best source for recordings of blues, folk music, ethnic music, country, bluegrass, vintage rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, rhythm & blues, soul, doo-wop and vintage jazz.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rootsandrhythm.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 1.7 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

rootsandrhythm.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rootsandrhythm.com

207 ms

rootsandrhythm.com

499 ms

rootstyle.css

67 ms

spacer.gif

137 ms

menutabs_r1_c1.gif

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rootsandrhythm.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (499 ms) belongs to the original domain Rootsandrhythm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

108.4 kB

After Optimization

93.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rootsandrhythm.com main page is 108.4 kB. 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 89.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 14.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 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. Roots And Rhythm images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 46 B

  • Original 205 B
  • After minification 205 B
  • After compression 159 B

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. Rootsandrhythm.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (57%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roots And Rhythm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rootsandrhythm.com accessibility score

52

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.

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

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

rootsandrhythm.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rootsandrhythm.com SEO score

67

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rootsandrhythm.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 Rootsandrhythm.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Roots And Rhythm. 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: