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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

loushieldsart.com

Lou Shields Official – Country Blues & American Roots Musician – Country Blues and American Roots Musician

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

481 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

493 ms

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About Website

Welcome to loushieldsart.com homepage info - get ready to check Lou Shields Art best content right away, or after learning these important things about loushieldsart.com

Country Blues & American Roots Musician Lou Shields has cultivated a soulful roots sound inspired by early-Americana styles. Using his 1931 National Resonator Guitar or Banjo accompanied by a unique f...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loushieldsart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 481 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loushieldsart.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.loushieldsart.com

481 ms

style.css

94 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

42 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Loushieldsart.com, 24% (16 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (481 ms) belongs to the original domain Loushieldsart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Loushieldsart.com main page is 6.0 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. 80% 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 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 65.8 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 55.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Lou Shields Art images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.6 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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. Loushieldsart.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (47%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lou Shields Art. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.loushieldsart.com

www.loushieldsart.com

481 ms

style.css

style.css

94 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

29 ms

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mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

42 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

47 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

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33 ms

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39 ms

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99 ms

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64 ms

ionicons.min.css

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74 ms

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101 ms

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38 ms

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38 ms

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44 ms

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46 ms

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46 ms

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47 ms

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47 ms

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113 ms

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98 ms

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115 ms

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127 ms

wc-blocks.css

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6 ms

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5 ms

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86 ms

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113 ms

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112 ms

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114 ms

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5 ms

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6 ms

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5 ms

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2 ms

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110 ms

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113 ms

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110 ms

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141 ms

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212 ms

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189 ms

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191 ms

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208 ms

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216 ms

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206 ms

Accessibility Review

loushieldsart.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

loushieldsart.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

loushieldsart.com SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Loushieldsart.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 Loushieldsart.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

loushieldsart.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lou Shields Art. 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: