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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

bagpipejourney.com

Andrew Lenz's Bagpipe Journey - Bagpiping Tips, Advice, Help and Reference

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

697 ms

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bagpipejourney.com homepage info - get ready to check Bagpipe Journey best content right away, or after learning these important things about bagpipejourney.com

Reference material for pipers of all levels. Covers care of the instrument, history, competition tips, and information on bands and bagpipers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bagpipejourney.com page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 972 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bagpipejourney.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bagpipejourney.com

248 ms

journey.css

119 ms

js

71 ms

__utm.js

188 ms

bannerad3.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Bagpipejourney.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) belongs to the original domain Bagpipejourney.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

165.8 kB

After Optimization

127.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bagpipejourney.com main page is 165.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 115.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 14.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 242 B

  • Original 115.3 kB
  • After minification 115.1 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. Bagpipe Journey images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 23.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 484 B

  • Original 748 B
  • After minification 611 B
  • After compression 264 B

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. Bagpipejourney.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 484 B or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bagpipe Journey. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bagpipejourney.com

bagpipejourney.com

248 ms

journey.css

journey.css

119 ms

js

js

71 ms

__utm.js

__utm.js

188 ms

bannerad3.js

bannerad3.js

123 ms

do_search.js

do_search.js

126 ms

depthpath.js

depthpath.js

126 ms

banner_top_strip650.gif

banner_top_strip650.gif

60 ms

banner_bot_strip650.gif

banner_bot_strip650.gif

65 ms

g1.gif

g1.gif

67 ms

g2.gif

g2.gif

79 ms

g3.gif

g3.gif

80 ms

signature.gif

signature.gif

121 ms

andrew.jpg

andrew.jpg

127 ms

g4.gif

g4.gif

127 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

162 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

163 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

163 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

180 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

190 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

188 ms

icon-offsite.gif

icon-offsite.gif

193 ms

hardie_pc.JPG

hardie_pc.JPG

195 ms

tru_tone_pc.JPG

tru_tone_pc.JPG

197 ms

bagpipes.jpg

bagpipes.jpg

240 ms

Andrew_Wed.jpg

Andrew_Wed.jpg

249 ms

santacruzpipesdrums2002.jpg

santacruzpipesdrums2002.jpg

377 ms

wsoy2002al.gif

wsoy2002al.gif

254 ms

PeterLenz1997-2010.jpg

PeterLenz1997-2010.jpg

257 ms

g5.jpg

g5.jpg

257 ms

g6.gif

g6.gif

299 ms

g7.gif

g7.gif

311 ms

09_SEP_Evolution_final.gif

09_SEP_Evolution_final.gif

317 ms

ColinKyoBest.jpg

ColinKyoBest.jpg

319 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

246 ms

shadow_left.gif

shadow_left.gif

285 ms

shadow_right.gif

shadow_right.gif

299 ms

shadow_left-kiss.gif

shadow_left-kiss.gif

307 ms

shadow_right-kiss.gif

shadow_right-kiss.gif

308 ms

Accessibility Review

bagpipejourney.com accessibility score

63

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

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

Best Practices

bagpipejourney.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bagpipejourney.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bagpipejourney.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 Bagpipejourney.com 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

bagpipejourney.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bagpipe Journey. 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: