Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

makingascene.org

Indie Artist Resource - Independent Musician Resource! Makingascene.org

Page Load Speed

35.8 sec in total

First Response

8.1 sec

Resources Loaded

27.2 sec

Page Rendered

467 ms

makingascene.org screenshot

About Website

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Making a Scene The Independent Musicians Resource Guide to Music Business. Indie Music, music business, CD Reviews, artist interviews

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Key Findings

We analyzed Makingascene.org page load time and found that the first response time was 8.1 sec and then it took 27.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

makingascene.org performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.makingascene.org

8098 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

139 ms

Banner-900x400-copy.jpg

113 ms

dd.gif

301 ms

IMG_7546.jpg

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 1139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 100% of them (1138 requests) were addressed to the original Makingascene.org, 0% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Makingascene.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (4%)

Content Size

55.0 MB

After Optimization

53.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Makingascene.org main page is 55.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 53.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 192.7 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 1.5 MB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 522.8 kB

  • Original 53.3 MB
  • After minification 52.8 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. Makingascene images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1138

After Optimization

1138

The browser has sent 1138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Makingascene. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

makingascene.org accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

makingascene.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

makingascene.org 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

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 Makingascene.org 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 Makingascene.org 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

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