Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

referencerecordings.com

Reference Recordings | Since 1976, The Best Seat in the House | Complete Audiophile Classical Music Orchestra and Jazz Catalog | HDCD | HRx | SACD | L...

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

725 ms

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About Website

Welcome to referencerecordings.com homepage info - get ready to check Reference Recordings best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about referencerecordings.com

REFERENCE RECORDINGS records and manufactures award winning, ultimate quality CDs, Hybrid SACDs, LPs, and HRx discs and downloads of 176.4 kHz/24 bit music.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Referencerecordings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

referencerecordings.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

referencerecordings.com

186 ms

referencerecordings.com

1249 ms

bootstrap.min.css

15 ms

reset.css

27 ms

style.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Referencerecordings.com, 11% (14 requests) were made to D10nlcvbt35ur0.cloudfront.net and 4% (5 requests) were made to Scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Referencerecordings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Referencerecordings.com main page is 6.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 138.7 kB
  • After minification 138.7 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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 107.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 85.7 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Reference Recordings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 418.8 kB
  • After minification 418.8 kB
  • After compression 413.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 136.3 kB
  • After minification 136.3 kB
  • After compression 130.2 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. Referencerecordings.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (78%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reference Recordings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 69 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

referencerecordings.com accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

referencerecordings.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

referencerecordings.com SEO score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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