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newdirectionsinmusic.com

New Directions in Music - "I'll play it and tell you what it is later" -Miles Davis-

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

386 ms

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About Website

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Music blog that focuses on experimental, groudbreaking, improvisational, technological or obscure sounds. Written an curated by Marshall Bowden

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newdirectionsinmusic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newdirectionsinmusic.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

newdirectionsinmusic.com

42 ms

www.newdirectionsinmusic.com

83 ms

js

151 ms

7qznv.css

16 ms

c8j2r.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Newdirectionsinmusic.com, 63% (57 requests) were made to Substackcdn.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (196 ms) relates to the external source Newdirectionsinmusic.substack.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.1 kB (20%)

Content Size

286.5 kB

After Optimization

228.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Newdirectionsinmusic.com main page is 286.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 125.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 49.4 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 49.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 45.8 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. New Directions In Music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 125.6 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 118.4 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. Newdirectionsinmusic.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (79%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Directions In Music. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 56 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

newdirectionsinmusic.com SEO score

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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 Newdirectionsinmusic.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 Newdirectionsinmusic.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of New Directions In Music. 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: