Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

b-band.com

Popular Guitar Reviews – B-Band - Your One Stop Shop For All Things Guitar

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

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About Website

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B-Band – We review the best guitars and guitar accessories on the market so you can make the most informed purchasing decisions

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Key Findings

We analyzed B-band.com page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

b-band.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.b-band.com

169 ms

style.min.css

41 ms

classic-themes.min.css

72 ms

styles.css

93 ms

frontend.min.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original B-band.com, 17% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) belongs to the original domain B-band.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of B-band.com main page is 1.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 104.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. B Band images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 327 B

  • Original 277.4 kB
  • After minification 277.4 kB
  • After compression 277.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 177.1 kB
  • After minification 162.2 kB
  • After compression 159.2 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. B-band.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (76%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of B Band. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

b-band.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

b-band.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

b-band.com SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise B-band.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 B-band.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 data is detected on the main page of B Band. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: