Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

flashband.org

Flashband - 7DrumCity

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

941 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

934 ms

flashband.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Flashband content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about flashband.org

Flashband allows musicians to meet other musicians, form temporary bands, and perform and live music venues in DC, all without the hassle of organizing it yourself. Hop in and get jamming!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flashband.org page load time and found that the first response time was 941 ms and then it took 3.4 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

flashband.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

941 ms

flashband.html

310 ms

sites.css

30 ms

fancybox.css

27 ms

social-icons.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Flashband.org, 26% (20 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (941 ms) relates to the external source 7drumcity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Flashband.org main page is 7.8 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 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 133.0 kB
  • After minification 131.8 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 110.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 88.2 kB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 7.0 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. Flashband images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 519.1 kB
  • After minification 519.1 kB
  • After compression 509.9 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 386 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Flashband.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (33%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flashband. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

flashband.org accessibility score

85

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

Best Practices

flashband.org 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

flashband.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Flashband.org 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 Flashband.org 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 Flashband. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: