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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bestbands.com

BestBands.com - Find the Best Band for Your Wedding

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Best Bands content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bestbands.com

BestBands is your direct connection to the most exciting bands in your area to play at your wedding. We’ve got great weddings bands performing in your area! We have bands in Boston, New York City, and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestbands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestbands.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestbands.com

41 ms

bestbands.com

1872 ms

css

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

100 ms

custom.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Bestbands.com, 29% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Bestbands.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

731.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestbands.com main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 4.1 kB, which is 19% 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 15.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 641.3 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, Best Bands needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 61% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 64.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 23.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 116.2 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. Bestbands.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (53%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Bands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bestbands.com

bestbands.com

41 ms

bestbands.com

bestbands.com

1872 ms

css

css

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

100 ms

custom.css

custom.css

87 ms

layout_56.css

layout_56.css

86 ms

page_header.css

page_header.css

199 ms

cms_page.css

cms_page.css

115 ms

panel_collection.css

panel_collection.css

298 ms

homepage_buttons.css

homepage_buttons.css

170 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

52 ms

js

js

97 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap-select.min.css

bootstrap-select.min.css

55 ms

bootstrap-select.min.js

bootstrap-select.min.js

32 ms

css

css

39 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

209 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

144 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

68 ms

logo.png

logo.png

75 ms

slider_1.png

slider_1.png

191 ms

how_it_works_music_icon.png

how_it_works_music_icon.png

74 ms

how_it_works_book_icon.png

how_it_works_book_icon.png

73 ms

how_it_works_heart_icon.png

how_it_works_heart_icon.png

76 ms

browse_our_bands_button.png

browse_our_bands_button.png

84 ms

find_a_band_button.png

find_a_band_button.png

247 ms

contact_us_now_button.png

contact_us_now_button.png

215 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

266 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

266 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

214 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

273 ms

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collect

collect

20 ms

js

js

68 ms

main.js

main.js

9 ms

Accessibility Review

bestbands.com accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

bestbands.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bestbands.com SEO score

92

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

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

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 Bestbands.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 Bestbands.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

bestbands.com

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