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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

mudcat.org

mudcat.org Traditional Music and Folklore Collection and Community

Page Load Speed

949 ms in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

651 ms

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mudcat.org homepage info - get ready to check Mudcat best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about mudcat.org

The Mudcat Cafe is a community of musicians, historians and enthusiasts that collect and discuss traditional folk and blues songs, folklore, lyrics, instruments, music, kid stuff and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mudcat.org page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 819 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mudcat.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,710 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mudcat.org

130 ms

js

80 ms

js

162 ms

dc.js

15 ms

adsbygoogle.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Mudcat.org, 14% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 14% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (295 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

325.0 kB

After Optimization

291.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mudcat.org main page is 325.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 273.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 33.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Mudcat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 200 B

  • Original 273.9 kB
  • After minification 273.9 kB
  • After compression 273.7 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (39%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mudcat. 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

mudcat.org

mudcat.org

130 ms

js

js

80 ms

js

js

162 ms

dc.js

dc.js

15 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

160 ms

brand

brand

36 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

34 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

37 ms

!mudcat.gif

!mudcat.gif

48 ms

!links3.gif

!links3.gif

97 ms

MudcatLogo2.gif

MudcatLogo2.gif

98 ms

i-twitter.png

i-twitter.png

98 ms

i-facebook.png

i-facebook.png

97 ms

i-rss.png

i-rss.png

98 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

139 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

65 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

19 ms

branding.png

branding.png

2 ms

js

js

136 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

295 ms

Accessibility Review

mudcat.org accessibility score

87

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

Best Practices

mudcat.org best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mudcat.org SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mudcat.org 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 Mudcat.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

mudcat.org

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