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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

banjoteacher.com

BanjoTeacher.com | Instruction | Banjos for Sale | Supplies

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

887 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

banjoteacher.com screenshot

About Website

Visit banjoteacher.com now to see the best up-to-date Banjo Teacher content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about banjoteacher.com

Since 2001 serving banjo players with banjo books, beginner banjos, banjos for sale, instruction, lessons online, banjo supplies, parts and all things banjo.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Banjoteacher.com page load time and found that the first response time was 887 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

banjoteacher.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.banjoteacher.com

887 ms

css

37 ms

css

56 ms

css

59 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 187 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (159 requests) were addressed to the original Banjoteacher.com, 4% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Banjoteacher.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Banjoteacher.com main page is 2.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 323.4 kB

  • Original 366.8 kB
  • After minification 366.8 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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 323.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Banjo Teacher images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 367.0 kB
  • After minification 337.4 kB
  • After compression 282.8 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 84.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 131.3 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 130.3 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. Banjoteacher.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (33%)

Requests Now

179

After Optimization

120

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 179 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Banjo Teacher. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

banjoteacher.com accessibility score

66

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

banjoteacher.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

banjoteacher.com SEO score

90

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

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 Banjoteacher.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 Banjoteacher.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

banjoteacher.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Banjo Teacher. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: