Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

folkiesonline.com

Musical Instruments Shop & Repairs - Folkies Music – folkiesmusic

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

694 ms

folkiesonline.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Folkies Online content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about folkiesonline.com

Folkies Music is your local music shop in north west London. Our range includes guitars, amps, accessories, and more, as well as repairs & maintenance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Folkiesonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 303 ms and then it took 3.6 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

folkiesonline.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,560 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

folkiesonline.com

303 ms

folkiesmusic.co.uk

585 ms

apps.css

40 ms

styles.css

55 ms

preloads.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Folkiesonline.com, 78% (77 requests) were made to Folkiesmusic.co.uk and 5% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (648 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Folkiesonline.com main page is 3.0 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 468.1 kB

  • Original 555.9 kB
  • After minification 536.6 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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 468.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Folkies Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 693.2 kB
  • After minification 693.2 kB
  • After compression 678.2 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 760 B

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 75.1 kB
  • After compression 74.3 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. Folkiesonline.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (29%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Folkies Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

folkiesonline.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

folkiesonline.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

folkiesonline.com SEO score

82

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

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 Folkiesonline.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 Folkiesonline.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

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