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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

metallica.com

Metallica.com

Page Load Speed

24.9 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

21 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metallica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 24.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metallica.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,470 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.232

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metallica.com

43 ms

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463 ms

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Our browser made a total of 229 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Metallica.com, 15% (35 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 13% (30 requests) were made to Cdn.media.amplience.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.media.amplience.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (5%)

Content Size

22.9 MB

After Optimization

21.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metallica.com main page is 22.9 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 21.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 362.5 kB

  • Original 505.7 kB
  • After minification 505.6 kB
  • After compression 143.2 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. 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 362.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 673.8 kB

  • Original 21.7 MB
  • After minification 21.1 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. Metallica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 511.1 kB
  • After minification 511.1 kB
  • After compression 457.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 85 B

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 123.2 kB
  • After compression 123.1 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. Metallica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (40%)

Requests Now

211

After Optimization

127

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 211 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metallica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

metallica.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

metallica.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

metallica.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Metallica.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 Metallica.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

metallica.com

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