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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

balalajka.com

Building an electric balalajka/balalaika. || Balalajka.com

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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About Website

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

This is a page about how to build an electric balalaika. Basically it is a log of my school project which was done in 2011. I hope to develope this homepage and improve it over the years to come.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balalajka.com page load time and found that the first response time was 300 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 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balalajka.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balalajka.com

300 ms

www.balalajka.com

370 ms

style.css

101 ms

piwik.js

303 ms

80x15.png

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Balalajka.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (1 request) were made to I.creativecommons.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (915 ms) belongs to the original domain Balalajka.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.3 kB (42%)

Content Size

346.5 kB

After Optimization

201.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balalajka.com main page is 346.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 310.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.1 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 4.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 120.7 kB

  • Original 310.2 kB
  • After minification 189.5 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. Obviously, Balalajka needs image optimization as it can save up to 120.7 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 12.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 626 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. Balalajka.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balalajka. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

balalajka.com

balalajka.com

300 ms

www.balalajka.com

www.balalajka.com

370 ms

style.css

style.css

101 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

303 ms

80x15.png

80x15.png

60 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

103 ms

background.png

background.png

102 ms

balalajka_v2.png

balalajka_v2.png

309 ms

categories.png

categories.png

205 ms

-info.png

-info.png

204 ms

-my_balalajkas.png

-my_balalajkas.png

204 ms

-musical_sheets.png

-musical_sheets.png

236 ms

-electric_balalajka.png

-electric_balalajka.png

310 ms

existing.png

existing.png

310 ms

project_plan.png

project_plan.png

310 ms

basic.png

basic.png

310 ms

blueprints.png

blueprints.png

352 ms

budget.png

budget.png

406 ms

my_plan.png

my_plan.png

409 ms

the_work.png

the_work.png

409 ms

tips-guide.png

tips-guide.png

410 ms

essay.png

essay.png

410 ms

-contact.png

-contact.png

468 ms

-copyright_info.png

-copyright_info.png

506 ms

-links.png

-links.png

511 ms

balalaikas-front.jpg

balalaikas-front.jpg

915 ms

david_hedvall_2012.png

david_hedvall_2012.png

509 ms

contact.png

contact.png

510 ms

info@balalajka.png

info@balalajka.png

583 ms

spreddit7.gif

spreddit7.gif

29 ms

like.php

like.php

267 ms

valid-xhtml11

valid-xhtml11

81 ms

vcss

vcss

136 ms

80x15.png

80x15.png

37 ms

4fTF6OBxs7B.js

4fTF6OBxs7B.js

27 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

14 ms

Accessibility Review

balalajka.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Best Practices

balalajka.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

balalajka.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Balalajka.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 Balalajka.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

balalajka.com

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