Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

billboard.com

Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video

Page Load Speed

72.9 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

33.3 sec

Page Rendered

39.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Billboard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 72.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

billboard.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.642

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value70.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.billboard.com

281 ms

advertisement.js

186 ms

homepage.css

114 ms

commons.bundle.js

969 ms

transition.bundle.js

968 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Billboard.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Charts-static.billboard.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.krxd.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.6 sec) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (14%)

Content Size

20.0 MB

After Optimization

17.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Billboard.com main page is 20.0 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. 85% 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. Images take 16.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 92.7 kB

  • Original 117.3 kB
  • After minification 116.9 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 92.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 223.9 kB

  • Original 16.0 MB
  • After minification 15.8 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. Billboard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB
  • After compression 883.2 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 1.9 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 662.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 449.5 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. Billboard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 662.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (46%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Billboard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

billboard.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

billboard.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

billboard.com SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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