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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

guitarsam.com

GuitarSam | Music Store Vermont - GuitarSam - Montpelier VT

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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GuitarSam - Musical instrument store in Vermont. Guitars, ukuleles, mandolins, banjos, hand percussion, recording, pedals, accessories, repairs. Locally owned for 40 years!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarsam.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guitarsam.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guitarsam.com

111 ms

www.guitarsam.com

319 ms

sites.css

9 ms

fancybox.css

78 ms

social-icons.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Guitarsam.com, 45% (24 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Guitarsam.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarsam.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 92.0 kB

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 109.0 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 92.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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 Sam images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 129.3 kB
  • After compression 120.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 467 B

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 40.1 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Guitarsam.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar Sam. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guitarsam.com

guitarsam.com

111 ms

www.guitarsam.com

www.guitarsam.com

319 ms

sites.css

sites.css

9 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

78 ms

social-icons.css

social-icons.css

75 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

161 ms

font.css

font.css

76 ms

font.css

font.css

76 ms

font.css

font.css

99 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

180 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

114 ms

stl.js

stl.js

77 ms

main.js

main.js

96 ms

commerce-core.js

commerce-core.js

75 ms

main-commerce-browse.js

main-commerce-browse.js

75 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

501 ms

custom.js

custom.js

498 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

19 ms

guitarsam-logo.png

guitarsam-logo.png

156 ms

559141385.jpg

559141385.jpg

788 ms

guitarsam-storefront_orig.png

guitarsam-storefront_orig.png

1129 ms

img-0946.jpg

img-0946.jpg

162 ms

banner-pix-021_1_orig.jpg

banner-pix-021_1_orig.jpg

1011 ms

storefront_orig.jpg

storefront_orig.jpg

564 ms

dean.jpg

dean.jpg

785 ms

banjouke.jpg

banjouke.jpg

785 ms

breedlove.jpg

breedlove.jpg

785 ms

diamond-head-ukes.jpg

diamond-head-ukes.jpg

936 ms

pineapple.jpg

pineapple.jpg

829 ms

lab30tribal.jpg

lab30tribal.jpg

985 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

22 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

294 ms

light.woff

light.woff

24 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

23 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

298 ms

lightitalic.woff

lightitalic.woff

298 ms

italic.woff

italic.woff

23 ms

bolditalic.woff

bolditalic.woff

297 ms

wsocial.woff

wsocial.woff

295 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

296 ms

light.woff

light.woff

297 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

297 ms

Unite_500.otf

Unite_500.otf

710 ms

Unite_700.otf

Unite_700.otf

759 ms

nxe1ajf.js

nxe1ajf.js

397 ms

ga.js

ga.js

74 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

71 ms

495 ms

d

d

37 ms

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d

38 ms

d

d

77 ms

d

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296 ms

tp2

tp2

127 ms

Accessibility Review

guitarsam.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

guitarsam.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

guitarsam.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Guitarsam.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 Guitarsam.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

guitarsam.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Guitar Sam. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: