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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

marantz.jp

Marantz公式サイト

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Marantz content for Japan. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about marantz.jp

“Marantz”は1953年にソウル･B･マランツ氏が、米国にてプレミアムオーディオ製品の開発･製造・販売をおこなうブランドとして設立。鋭い感性を持った音楽愛好家達の期待をも超越するという創業以来のソウル・B・マランツの精神は、常にマランツ製品の中に反映されています。

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marantz.jp page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marantz.jp performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,160 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marantz.jp

32 ms

466 ms

jquery.min.js

43 ms

xyb5rpj.css

189 ms

marantz-style.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 296 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Marantz.jp, 88% (259 requests) were made to Marantz.com and 2% (5 requests) were made to Preprod.marantz.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (845 ms) relates to the external source Marantz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marantz.jp main page is 5.5 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 73.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Marantz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 98.4 kB
  • After compression 98.4 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. Marantz.jp has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 214 (75%)

Requests Now

285

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 285 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marantz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 200 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

marantz.jp accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

marantz.jp best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marantz.jp SEO score

54

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    JA

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marantz.jp can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Marantz.jp 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

marantz.jp

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