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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

brassband.co.uk

Brass Band Music Shop | Your sheet music search engine

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brassband.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brassband.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brassband.co.uk

60 ms

www.brassband.co.uk

157 ms

styles.css

105 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

117 ms

af.equal-height.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Brassband.co.uk, 13% (4 requests) were made to Studio-music.co.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (904 ms) relates to the external source Studio-music.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

911.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brassband.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 832.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 98.6 kB

  • Original 131.6 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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 98.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 832.5 kB
  • After minification 719.7 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, Brass Band needs image optimization as it can save up to 112.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 156.1 kB
  • After minification 156.1 kB
  • After compression 153.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Brassband.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (36%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brass Band. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brassband.co.uk

brassband.co.uk

60 ms

www.brassband.co.uk

www.brassband.co.uk

157 ms

styles.css

styles.css

105 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

117 ms

af.equal-height.js

af.equal-height.js

24 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

126 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

132 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

155 ms

mediaelementplayer.css

mediaelementplayer.css

34 ms

dg.js

dg.js

19 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

38 ms

embed.js

embed.js

25 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

14 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

8 ms

VBFExcaSet-Jan-Van-der-Roost-Brass-Band-Excalibur.jpg

VBFExcaSet-Jan-Van-der-Roost-Brass-Band-Excalibur.jpg

816 ms

fab0571572464_0.jpg

fab0571572464_0.jpg

640 ms

ga.js

ga.js

32 ms

logo.png

logo.png

124 ms

gramercy.png

gramercy.png

129 ms

img-01.png

img-01.png

124 ms

img-02.png

img-02.png

128 ms

img-03.png

img-03.png

123 ms

BMP21013720-Etienne-Crausaz-Brass-Band-Albinus-Variations.jpg

BMP21013720-Etienne-Crausaz-Brass-Band-Albinus-Variations.jpg

720 ms

M050019350-Peter-Yorke-Brass-Band-The-Shipbuilders.jpg

M050019350-Peter-Yorke-Brass-Band-The-Shipbuilders.jpg

904 ms

BM20120722BB-Ray-Parker-Jr-Frank-Bernaerts-Brass-Band-Ghostbusters.jpg

BM20120722BB-Ray-Parker-Jr-Frank-Bernaerts-Brass-Band-Ghostbusters.jpg

479 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

6 ms

122 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

38 ms

hero-webfont.svg

hero-webfont.svg

128 ms

hero-webfont.woff

hero-webfont.woff

112 ms

73 ms

Accessibility Review

brassband.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

brassband.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

brassband.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Brassband.co.uk 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 Brassband.co.uk 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

brassband.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Brass Band. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: