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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

bluegrasstoday.com

Bluegrass News, Concerts, Album Reviews & More! - Bluegrass Today

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

676 ms

bluegrasstoday.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bluegrass Today content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bluegrasstoday.com

Follow the latest news on all of your favorite bluegrass artists from yesterday to today. View the concert calendar & read album reviews. Discover something new today!

Visit bluegrasstoday.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Bluegrasstoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluegrasstoday.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluegrasstoday.com

108 ms

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95 ms

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Our browser made a total of 193 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Bluegrasstoday.com, 17% (32 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com and 9% (17 requests) were made to Encore.scdn.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (919 ms) relates to the external source G.adspeed.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluegrasstoday.com main page is 3.1 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 157.9 kB

  • Original 189.4 kB
  • After minification 178.8 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 157.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Bluegrass Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 227.7 kB
  • After minification 223.7 kB
  • After compression 214.0 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. Bluegrasstoday.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (74%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bluegrass Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bluegrasstoday.com accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bluegrasstoday.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bluegrasstoday.com SEO score

78

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

bluegrasstoday.com

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