Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

folkworks.org

FolkWorks | Folk, Roots, Trad Music Dance & Storytelling

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

487 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

676 ms

folkworks.org screenshot

About Website

Visit folkworks.org now to see the best up-to-date Folk Works content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about folkworks.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Folkworks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 487 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

folkworks.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

folkworks.org

487 ms

grid.css

58 ms

base.css

41 ms

layout.css

50 ms

audio-player.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 233 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (220 requests) were addressed to the original Folkworks.org, 3% (6 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (487 ms) belongs to the original domain Folkworks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Folkworks.org main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 750.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 176.0 kB

  • Original 218.9 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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 176.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 750.0 kB
  • After minification 750.0 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. Folk Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 237.9 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 236.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (47%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Folk Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

folkworks.org accessibility score

93

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Best Practices

folkworks.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

folkworks.org SEO score

98

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