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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

dulcimers.com

Dulcimers! Hammered Dulcimers and Other Acoustic Instruments

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

818 ms

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

Visit dulcimers.com now to see the best up-to-date Dulcimers content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dulcimers.com

For players or lovers of hammered dulcimer (dulcimers), autoharp, harp, fiddle, or any acoustic instruments. Features Evart (Michigan) Funfest Dulcimer Festival and other music events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dulcimers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 925 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dulcimers.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dulcimers.com

193 ms

common-style.css

81 ms

gray.css

149 ms

gray-menu.css

145 ms

css.js

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dulcimers.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (401 ms) belongs to the original domain Dulcimers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

125.7 kB

After Optimization

107.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dulcimers.com main page is 125.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 100.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 6.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 96.3 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. Dulcimers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 2.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Dulcimers.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dulcimers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dulcimers.com

dulcimers.com

193 ms

common-style.css

common-style.css

81 ms

gray.css

gray.css

149 ms

gray-menu.css

gray-menu.css

145 ms

css.js

css.js

143 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

144 ms

pop-closeup.js

pop-closeup.js

148 ms

header.js

header.js

145 ms

menu.js

menu.js

211 ms

sidebar-right.js

sidebar-right.js

211 ms

copyright.js

copyright.js

225 ms

copyright-allwebco.js

copyright-allwebco.js

218 ms

teal.css

teal.css

70 ms

teal-menu.css

teal-menu.css

71 ms

sidebar.htm

sidebar.htm

74 ms

bar.jpg

bar.jpg

83 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

74 ms

home.jpg

home.jpg

139 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

86 ms

background-sidebar.gif

background-sidebar.gif

81 ms

shadow-vertical.gif

shadow-vertical.gif

145 ms

corner.gif

corner.gif

146 ms

shadow-horizontal.gif

shadow-horizontal.gif

151 ms

random_image2.cgi

random_image2.cgi

401 ms

random_image.cgi

random_image.cgi

387 ms

black.css

black.css

140 ms

black-menu.css

black-menu.css

151 ms

sidebar-left.js

sidebar-left.js

155 ms

background-sidebar-title.gif

background-sidebar-title.gif

71 ms

Accessibility Review

dulcimers.com accessibility score

52

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

Best Practices

dulcimers.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

dulcimers.com SEO score

50

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dulcimers.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 Dulcimers.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

dulcimers.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dulcimers. 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: