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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bluesmatters.com

Blues Matters Magazine - your best blues news companion

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluesmatters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluesmatters.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,200 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.966

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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61 ms

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2094 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

32 ms

woocommerce.css

49 ms

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36 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Bluesmatters.com, 26% (32 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (16 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Bluesmatters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluesmatters.com main page is 2.4 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. 80% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 95.2 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 76.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Blues Matters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 939.4 kB
  • After minification 939.4 kB
  • After compression 933.9 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 100.9 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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. Bluesmatters.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.8 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (87%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blues Matters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bluesmatters.com accessibility score

86

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

bluesmatters.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

SEO Factors

bluesmatters.com SEO score

93

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

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 Bluesmatters.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 Bluesmatters.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

bluesmatters.com

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