Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

guildguitars.com

Guild Guitars | Guild Acoustic and Electric Guitars

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

497 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

Welcome to guildguitars.com homepage info - get ready to check Guild Guitars best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about guildguitars.com

Iconic American guitar maker with over 60 years of building handcrafted instruments in the United States. Guild guitars are made to be played.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guildguitars.com page load time and found that the first response time was 497 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guildguitars.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value52.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guildguitars.com

497 ms

css

29 ms

grid.css

87 ms

base.css

75 ms

layout.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (148 requests) were addressed to the original Guildguitars.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.userway.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (497 ms) belongs to the original domain Guildguitars.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (13%)

Content Size

14.5 MB

After Optimization

12.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Guildguitars.com main page is 14.5 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 13.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 150.3 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 123.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 13.6 MB
  • After minification 12.0 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. Obviously, Guild Guitars needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 180.1 kB

  • Original 554.4 kB
  • After minification 554.4 kB
  • After compression 374.4 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 180.1 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 165.6 kB
  • After compression 142.3 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. Guildguitars.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 131 (85%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guild Guitars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 69 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

guildguitars.com accessibility score

89

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

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

guildguitars.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

guildguitars.com SEO score

97

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 Guildguitars.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 Guildguitars.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 description is not detected on the main page of Guild Guitars. 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: