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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

guitarnow.org

Guitar Now...the Ultimate Guitar App for Online Guitar Lessons

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

567 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarnow.org page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitarnow.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.881

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitarnow.org

114 ms

guitarnow.org

739 ms

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarnow.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (741 ms) belongs to the original domain Guitarnow.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarnow.org main page is 3.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 29.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 204.0 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Guitar Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 301.3 kB
  • After minification 301.3 kB
  • After compression 299.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 821 B

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. Guitarnow.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (45%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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guitarnow.org

114 ms

guitarnow.org

guitarnow.org

739 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

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45 ms

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38 ms

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63 ms

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113 ms

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jquery.bxslider.min.css

162 ms

HomePage.css

HomePage.css

160 ms

api.js

api.js

42 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

166 ms

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160 ms

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165 ms

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195 ms

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374 ms

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373 ms

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374 ms

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374 ms

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343 ms

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435 ms

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page.js

34 ms

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426 ms

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429 ms

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scrollreveal.min.js

428 ms

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431 ms

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432 ms

HomePage.js

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480 ms

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479 ms

loading1.gif

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58 ms

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551 ms

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19 ms

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15 ms

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8 ms

Accessibility Review

guitarnow.org accessibility score

79

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

guitarnow.org best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

guitarnow.org SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Guitarnow.org 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 Guitarnow.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

guitarnow.org

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