Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

theymakemusic.com

They Make Music - Interviews with your favorite musicians, DJs, and producers.

Page Load Speed

634 ms in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

475 ms

Page Rendered

113 ms

About Website

Visit theymakemusic.com now to see the best up-to-date They Make Music content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theymakemusic.com

A continuously-growing collection of interviews with talented musicians, focusing on the tools they use that help shape their sound.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theymakemusic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 588 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theymakemusic.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theymakemusic.com

46 ms

www.theymakemusic.com

56 ms

css

33 ms

article-4d19b03f.css

3 ms

zak7fzq.js

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Theymakemusic.com, 64% (18 requests) were made to Static.theymakemusic.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

290.4 kB

After Optimization

269.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Theymakemusic.com main page is 290.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 278.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 8.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 278.6 kB
  • After minification 266.4 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. They Make Music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of They Make Music. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

theymakemusic.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

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

theymakemusic.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

SEO Factors

theymakemusic.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theymakemusic.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 Theymakemusic.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 They Make Music. 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: