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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thefretboard.co.uk

the UK's best & busiest online guitar community

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

922 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefretboard.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefretboard.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefretboard.co.uk

176 ms

www.thefretboard.co.uk

541 ms

style.css

87 ms

vanillicon.css

169 ms

editor.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Thefretboard.co.uk, 9% (10 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thefretboard.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 433.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefretboard.co.uk main page is 7.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 93.7 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.6 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 80.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 269.9 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Thefretboard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 74.0 kB

  • Original 672.1 kB
  • After minification 671.9 kB
  • After compression 598.0 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 74.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Thefretboard.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (46%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thefretboard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thefretboard.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

thefretboard.co.uk best practices score

67

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

thefretboard.co.uk SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thefretboard.co.uk 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 Thefretboard.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Thefretboard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: