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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thepianoexpress.com

The Piano Express - Piano Lessons Ashburn, Virginia

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

5.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

416 ms

About Website

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A nationally recognized piano studio in Northern Virginia. Our innovative program keeps kids engaged with technology and music games.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepianoexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.7 sec and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepianoexpress.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.019

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepianoexpress.com

5699 ms

formidableforms.css

300 ms

wp-customer-reviews.css

262 ms

styles.css

342 ms

css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thepianoexpress.com, 19% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Load.sumome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepianoexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

886.7 kB

After Optimization

693.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepianoexpress.com main page is 886.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 485.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 116.4 kB

  • Original 143.5 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 116.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 485.3 kB
  • After minification 471.5 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. The Piano Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 237.9 kB
  • After minification 237.9 kB
  • After compression 180.6 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 57.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Thepianoexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (70%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Piano Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thepianoexpress.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thepianoexpress.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

thepianoexpress.com SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thepianoexpress.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 Thepianoexpress.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 The Piano Express. 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: