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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

marching.com

MARCHING.COM: Marching Band, High School Marching Bands, Competitions, Scores, Uniforms, Fundraisers

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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About Website

Visit marching.com now to see the best up-to-date MARCHING content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about marching.com

Marching.com is a one-stop source of high school marching band events, links, resources, news and photos. Find details of major parade and field competitions, links to marching bands on the net, and a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marching.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marching.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marching.com

200 ms

marching.com

346 ms

marchingstyle.css

62 ms

show_ads.js

89 ms

1.jpg

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Marching.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) belongs to the original domain Marching.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

981.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marching.com main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 645.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.1 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 645.0 kB
  • After minification 621.8 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. MARCHING images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

  • Original 504.8 kB
  • After minification 504.8 kB
  • After compression 351.5 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 153.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 718 B

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. Marching.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (31%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MARCHING. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marching.com

marching.com

200 ms

marching.com

marching.com

346 ms

marchingstyle.css

marchingstyle.css

62 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

89 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

192 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

265 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

432 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

372 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

432 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

385 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

383 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

324 ms

9.jpg

9.jpg

390 ms

hdr_main.jpg

hdr_main.jpg

435 ms

marching_logo.gif

marching_logo.gif

444 ms

googlesearch.gif

googlesearch.gif

444 ms

facebook-16.jpg

facebook-16.jpg

448 ms

gateway-728x90.png

gateway-728x90.png

494 ms

band_shoppe_2022.jpg

band_shoppe_2022.jpg

551 ms

standing-o-marching-2020.gif

standing-o-marching-2020.gif

510 ms

drillmasters-350x90.png

drillmasters-350x90.png

628 ms

gateway-350x90.png

gateway-350x90.png

512 ms

bgd_hdr350.jpg

bgd_hdr350.jpg

507 ms

bgd_hdr250.jpg

bgd_hdr250.jpg

551 ms

aes-500-festival-parade_t.png

aes-500-festival-parade_t.png

628 ms

national-memorial-day-parade_t.jpg

national-memorial-day-parade_t.jpg

629 ms

portland-logo-2010_t.jpg

portland-logo-2010_t.jpg

630 ms

gallery-thumb-west-chester.png

gallery-thumb-west-chester.png

631 ms

macys-photo-essay-thumb.jpg

macys-photo-essay-thumb.jpg

630 ms

dci-2023-gallery-thumb.jpg

dci-2023-gallery-thumb.jpg

631 ms

demoulin120x90.jpg

demoulin120x90.jpg

656 ms

bgd_hdr120.jpg

bgd_hdr120.jpg

656 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

101 ms

edge_rt.jpg

edge_rt.jpg

645 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

391 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

43 ms

ads

ads

368 ms

ads

ads

88 ms

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12435249352249901780

23 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

26 ms

s

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8 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

32 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

33 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

9 ms

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

171 ms

icon.png

icon.png

7 ms

activeview

activeview

62 ms

Accessibility Review

marching.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

marching.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marching.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

High

Document uses plugins

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marching.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 Marching.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

marching.com

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