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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

guitarapprentice.com

Guitar Apprentice - Stop Playing Games. Rock for real!

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

899 ms

Page Rendered

248 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarapprentice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 656 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

guitarapprentice.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitarapprentice.com

656 ms

styles.css

51 ms

jquery.js

119 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

76 ms

ga.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarapprentice.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Dnn506yrbagrg.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) belongs to the original domain Guitarapprentice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

364.7 kB

After Optimization

345.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarapprentice.com main page is 364.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 320.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.3 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 320.6 kB
  • After minification 308.5 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. Guitar Apprentice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 34.9 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 98 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 kB
  • After compression 949 B

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. Guitarapprentice.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Apprentice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guitarapprentice.com

guitarapprentice.com

656 ms

styles.css

styles.css

51 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

119 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

76 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

back_zakk.jpg

back_zakk.jpg

114 ms

Header_Logo_inside.png

Header_Logo_inside.png

96 ms

zakk_feat.png

zakk_feat.png

65 ms

feat_01.jpg

feat_01.jpg

55 ms

feat_02.jpg

feat_02.jpg

121 ms

feat_03.jpg

feat_03.jpg

120 ms

feat_04.jpg

feat_04.jpg

85 ms

9795.js

9795.js

65 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

9795.js

9795.js

57 ms

Accessibility Review

guitarapprentice.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

guitarapprentice.com best practices score

58

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

guitarapprentice.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Guitarapprentice.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Guitarapprentice.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Guitar Apprentice. 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: