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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

balkanfolk.com

Balkanfolk - Balkan folk dances, music and singing

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Balkan Folk content for Bulgaria. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about balkanfolk.com

Touch and feel the spirit of the Balkan arts - Folklore Workshop - dancing, singing, Folk CDs Costumes Gifts Instuments e-Shop, Free MP3 examples, Bulgarian and Balkanfolk Groups Catalogue.

Visit balkanfolk.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Balkanfolk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 2.4 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

balkanfolk.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.528

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balkanfolk.com

93 ms

www.balkanfolk.com

218 ms

style1.css

31 ms

adsbygoogle.js

153 ms

plusone.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Balkanfolk.com, 10% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Balkanfolk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balkanfolk.com main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 744.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 85.2 kB

  • Original 100.2 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 14.7 kB, which is 15% 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 85.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 356.5 kB
  • After minification 350.7 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. Balkan Folk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 744.5 kB
  • After minification 744.3 kB
  • After compression 708.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 140 B

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 118.2 kB
  • After compression 118.0 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. Balkanfolk.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (66%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balkan Folk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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218 ms

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Accessibility Review

balkanfolk.com accessibility score

77

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

balkanfolk.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balkanfolk.com SEO score

69

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balkanfolk.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 Balkanfolk.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

balkanfolk.com

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