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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

iguitarmag.com

Guitar Interactive - The Worlds No.1 Free Digital Guitar Magazine

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iguitarmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 10.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iguitarmag.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iguitarmag.com

252 ms

www.iguitarmag.com

8004 ms

main.less

406 ms

css

608 ms

font-awesome.min.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Iguitarmag.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) belongs to the original domain Iguitarmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

659.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iguitarmag.com main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 506.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 79.2 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 58.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 454.0 kB
  • After minification 430.0 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. I Guitar Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 302.9 kB

  • Original 506.9 kB
  • After minification 502.4 kB
  • After compression 204.0 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 302.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Iguitarmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (14%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of I Guitar Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

iguitarmag.com

iguitarmag.com

252 ms

www.iguitarmag.com

www.iguitarmag.com

8004 ms

main.less

main.less

406 ms

css

css

608 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

244 ms

mkm6gzn.js

mkm6gzn.js

133 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

73 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

12 ms

video.js

video.js

192 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

248 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

474 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

247 ms

main.js

main.js

245 ms

background2.jpg

background2.jpg

171 ms

guitar-interative-magazine-logo.png

guitar-interative-magazine-logo.png

172 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

172 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

90 ms

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youtube.png

90 ms

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pinterest.png

162 ms

google-plus.png

google-plus.png

173 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

171 ms

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menubg.jpg

225 ms

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taylor_acoustic_comp_banner.gif

348 ms

ig39_cover_med.jpg

ig39_cover_med.jpg

351 ms

ReaditFree.png

ReaditFree.png

432 ms

zeroglide-banner.gif

zeroglide-banner.gif

429 ms

divider.png

divider.png

251 ms

o-amps.jpg

o-amps.jpg

311 ms

read_article.jpg

read_article.jpg

332 ms

korg-pitchblack.jpg

korg-pitchblack.jpg

400 ms

hk-amp.jpg

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416 ms

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433 ms

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434 ms

walrusaudio.jpg

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484 ms

read_more_articles.jpg

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499 ms

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512 ms

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517 ms

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519 ms

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520 ms

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567 ms

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580 ms

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595 ms

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seagull-a8-mandolin.jpg

599 ms

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manuel-rodriguez-mrc3meb-classical.jpg

602 ms

dimarzio-black-angels-acoustic-pickup.jpg

dimarzio-black-angels-acoustic-pickup.jpg

604 ms

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faith-12-string-venus-trembesi.jpg

649 ms

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663 ms

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605 ms

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604 ms

fishman-soloamp.jpg

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604 ms

ga.js

ga.js

35 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

46 ms

allen-heath-qu24-digital-mixer.jpg

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571 ms

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

31 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

ibanez-pgm80p-paul-gilbert-signature-guitar.jpg

ibanez-pgm80p-paul-gilbert-signature-guitar.jpg

578 ms

collect

collect

60 ms

read_more_reviews.jpg

read_more_reviews.jpg

583 ms

twitter_bird.jpg

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599 ms

read_on_twitter.jpg

read_on_twitter.jpg

603 ms

ig38_cover.jpg

ig38_cover.jpg

605 ms

ig37_cover_med.jpg

ig37_cover_med.jpg

606 ms

ig36_cover_med.jpg

ig36_cover_med.jpg

599 ms

iG35_Cover_M.jpg

iG35_Cover_M.jpg

584 ms

iG34_Cover.jpg

iG34_Cover.jpg

542 ms

view_all_editions.jpg

view_all_editions.jpg

521 ms

logo2.png

logo2.png

509 ms

Accessibility Review

iguitarmag.com accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

iguitarmag.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

iguitarmag.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iguitarmag.com 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 Iguitarmag.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

iguitarmag.com

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