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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

guitarjar.co.uk

Guitar Jar Magazine - Reviews, News, Interviews, Features, Lessons and more...

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

728 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Guitar Jar content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about guitarjar.co.uk

Guitar Jar online guitar magazine features guitar, amplifier and effects reviews, interviews, competitions, free guitar lessons and articles discussing guitar tone, recording & playing live.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarjar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 728 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitarjar.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.616

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.guitarjar.co.uk

728 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

175 ms

bootstrap.css

267 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

186 ms

flexslider.css

184 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarjar.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn-images.mailchimp.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) belongs to the original domain Guitarjar.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

908.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarjar.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 670.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 61.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 670.0 kB
  • After minification 654.9 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 Jar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 207.6 kB
  • After minification 207.6 kB
  • After compression 195.3 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 49.3 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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. Guitarjar.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (67%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Jar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.guitarjar.co.uk

www.guitarjar.co.uk

728 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

175 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

267 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

186 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

184 ms

style.css

style.css

187 ms

prettyphoto.css

prettyphoto.css

191 ms

options.css

options.css

272 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

277 ms

styles.css

styles.css

278 ms

style.css

style.css

281 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

394 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

357 ms

jquery.youtubeplaylist.js

jquery.youtubeplaylist.js

374 ms

require-utils.js

require-utils.js

370 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

373 ms

si_captcha.js

si_captcha.js

374 ms

classic-081711.css

classic-081711.css

7 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

72 ms

classic-081711.css

classic-081711.css

17 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

434 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

434 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

434 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

434 ms

jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js

jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js

433 ms

jflickrfeed.min.js

jflickrfeed.min.js

433 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

534 ms

jquery.collapse.js

jquery.collapse.js

527 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

529 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

530 ms

jquery.prettyphoto.js

jquery.prettyphoto.js

532 ms

scrolltopcontrol.js

scrolltopcontrol.js

528 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

618 ms

custom.js

custom.js

626 ms

twitter-widgets.js

twitter-widgets.js

622 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

624 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

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guitarjar-logo-2013_website2.png

295 ms

black-cat-n-fuzz-486x433.png

black-cat-n-fuzz-486x433.png

774 ms

truetone-150x150.gif

truetone-150x150.gif

374 ms

willmcnicol-150x150.jpg

willmcnicol-150x150.jpg

382 ms

sonichighways-150x150.jpg

sonichighways-150x150.jpg

474 ms

black-cat-n-fuzz-150x150.png

black-cat-n-fuzz-150x150.png

475 ms

BNEG99_angled-150x150.jpeg

BNEG99_angled-150x150.jpeg

391 ms

cort-head-150x150.jpg

cort-head-150x150.jpg

467 ms

OurayAstroDog-models-150x150.jpg

OurayAstroDog-models-150x150.jpg

476 ms

aer-alpha-40w-150x150.jpg

aer-alpha-40w-150x150.jpg

490 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

185 ms

title-indicator.png

title-indicator.png

545 ms

public.js

public.js

538 ms

public.css

public.css

531 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

glyphicons-halflings.png

glyphicons-halflings.png

91 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

34 ms

menu-arrows-circle.png

menu-arrows-circle.png

97 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

20 ms

settings

settings

68 ms

Accessibility Review

guitarjar.co.uk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

guitarjar.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

guitarjar.co.uk SEO score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Guitarjar.co.uk 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 Guitarjar.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Guitar Jar. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: