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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

virgilguitar.com

Virgil Guitars® | Custom built guitars from a custom guitar builder | Tampa, Florida

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

654 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

About Website

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Custom, one-off boutique guitars with exceptional tone & feel. Virgil Guitars posts daily pics of YOUR build. Amazing inlays, truly unique guitars!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virgilguitar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 654 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virgilguitar.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virgilguitar.com

654 ms

bootstrap.css

115 ms

modern-business.css

111 ms

font-awesome.min.css

110 ms

retina.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Virgilguitar.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (654 ms) belongs to the original domain Virgilguitar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virgilguitar.com main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 999.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.6 kB, which is 13% 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 8.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 999.2 kB
  • After minification 981.2 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. Virgil Guitar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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. Virgilguitar.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (50%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgil Guitar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

virgilguitar.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

virgilguitar.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

virgilguitar.com SEO score

83

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 Virgilguitar.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 Virgilguitar.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 Virgil Guitar. 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: