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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

furmanhistory.com

History of Furman Sound and its Grateful Dead Roots

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

835 ms

Page Rendered

250 ms

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About Website

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The history of pro audio/power conditioning company Furman Sound, and its roots that trace back to the Grateful Dead scene of the early 1970's, by founder Janet Furman.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Furmanhistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

furmanhistory.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

furmanhistory.com

125 ms

js

83 ms

FurmanBanner.gif

71 ms

gdlogo.jpg

227 ms

plusone.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Furmanhistory.com, 25% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

443.0 kB

After Optimization

425.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Furmanhistory.com main page is 443.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 246.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 14.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 246.1 kB
  • After minification 243.5 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. Furman History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 459 B

  • Original 173.5 kB
  • After minification 173.5 kB
  • After compression 173.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Furman History. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

furmanhistory.com

furmanhistory.com

125 ms

js

js

83 ms

FurmanBanner.gif

FurmanBanner.gif

71 ms

gdlogo.jpg

gdlogo.jpg

227 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

37 ms

SummerJam.jpg

SummerJam.jpg

232 ms

Janet.jpg

Janet.jpg

225 ms

PQ-3.jpg

PQ-3.jpg

125 ms

PQsecondgen.jpg

PQsecondgen.jpg

121 ms

PQ-4.gif

PQ-4.gif

131 ms

Q-151.gif

Q-151.gif

225 ms

Refseries.jpg

Refseries.jpg

236 ms

MM-1000.jpg

MM-1000.jpg

244 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

6 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

25 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

49 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

100 ms

js

js

69 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

535 ms

3192416480-postmessagerelay.js

3192416480-postmessagerelay.js

53 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

52 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

5 ms

Accessibility Review

furmanhistory.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

furmanhistory.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

furmanhistory.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Furmanhistory.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 Furmanhistory.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

furmanhistory.com

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