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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

raysgigs.com

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Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

4.5 sec

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About Website

Visit raysgigs.com now to see the best up-to-date Rays Gigs content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about raysgigs.com

Daily news and reviews of gigs, clubs, restaurants, fashion and more. Includes a complete gig list from 1973-2002, upcoming tour news and contact details.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raysgigs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

raysgigs.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.55

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1246 ms

ga.js

12 ms

style-desktop.css

442 ms

jquery.min.js

12 ms

cycle.js

451 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Raysgigs.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Raysgigs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

379.0 kB

After Optimization

251.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Raysgigs.com main page is 379.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 167.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 104.3 kB

  • Original 167.4 kB
  • After minification 166.7 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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 104.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 134.9 kB
  • After minification 124.8 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. Rays Gigs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 63.9 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Raysgigs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rays Gigs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

1246 ms

ga.js

ga.js

12 ms

style-desktop.css

style-desktop.css

442 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

cycle.js

cycle.js

451 ms

script.js

script.js

453 ms

css2

css2

45 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

575 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

531 ms

dexys.jpg

dexys.jpg

246 ms

drummer.png

drummer.png

242 ms

singer.png

singer.png

435 ms

font

font

24 ms

style-tablet.css

style-tablet.css

223 ms

style-mobile.css

style-mobile.css

223 ms

Accessibility Review

raysgigs.com accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

raysgigs.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

SEO Factors

raysgigs.com SEO score

96

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Raysgigs.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 Raysgigs.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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