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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

hitsquad.com

Hitsquad (Hitsquad)

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hitsquad content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hitsquad.com

Hitsquad publishes websites that provide information for musicians. Sites include Gearank.com, GuitarSite.com and Parlor.Guitars

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hitsquad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 3.3 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

hitsquad.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,230 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hitsquad.com

91 ms

www.hitsquad.com

135 ms

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77 ms

jquery.js

69 ms

drupal.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Hitsquad.com, 19% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 17% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (631 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.7 kB (57%)

Content Size

895.1 kB

After Optimization

384.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hitsquad.com main page is 895.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 364.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 223.0 kB

  • Original 304.2 kB
  • After minification 302.4 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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. 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 223.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 175.1 kB
  • After minification 161.7 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. Hitsquad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 228.1 kB

  • Original 364.4 kB
  • After minification 358.6 kB
  • After compression 136.2 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 228.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Hitsquad.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (49%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hitsquad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hitsquad.com

hitsquad.com

91 ms

www.hitsquad.com

www.hitsquad.com

135 ms

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773c1372b9a02ef40ce41d1c5191abed.css

77 ms

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69 ms

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drupal.js

70 ms

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72 ms

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73 ms

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108 ms

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134 ms

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222 ms

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161 ms

print.css

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36 ms

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250 ms

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83 ms

container.html

container.html

114 ms

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37 ms

ads

ads

628 ms

expansion_embed.js

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263 ms

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313 ms

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283 ms

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336 ms

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428 ms

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135 ms

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137 ms

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540 ms

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344 ms

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495 ms

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298 ms

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365 ms

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500 ms

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631 ms

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528 ms

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527 ms

favicon

favicon

408 ms

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211 ms

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189 ms

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351 ms

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118 ms

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77 ms

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72 ms

ui

ui

193 ms

activeview

activeview

75 ms

Accessibility Review

hitsquad.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hitsquad.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

hitsquad.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hitsquad.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 Hitsquad.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

hitsquad.com

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