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guitarschool.net

Guitar Center: Music Instruments, Accessories and Equipment

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

465 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

523 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Guitar School content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about guitarschool.net

Guitar Center is the world's largest musical instruments retailer. Shop Guitars, Bass, Drums, Amps, DJ, Keyboards, Pro-Audio and more. Most orders ship free!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guitarschool.net page load time and found that the first response time was 465 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

guitarschool.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.guitarcenter.com

465 ms

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39 ms

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preload.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Guitarschool.net, 28% (29 requests) were made to Media.guitarcenter.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) relates to the external source Guitarcenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 783.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guitarschool.net main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 142.0 kB
  • After minification 113.7 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.3 kB, which is 20% 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 120.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 984.0 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 School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 426.6 kB

  • Original 633.6 kB
  • After minification 607.1 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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 426.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 197.0 kB

  • Original 242.3 kB
  • After minification 242.0 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Guitarschool.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (34%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guitar School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

guitarschool.net SEO score

0

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 Guitarschool.net 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 Guitarschool.net 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 School. 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: