Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

sig-ex.com

Signal Experiments | virtual instruments for virtual orchestras

Page Load Speed

633 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

502 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Signal Experiments is a place to find sampled instruments for your digital music. Human beings are creative by nature. The fact that current technologies now allow anyone to create virtual orchestrati...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sig-ex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 603 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sig-ex.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sig-ex.com

30 ms

sig-ex.com

27 ms

webfont.js

126 ms

145 ms

style.css

158 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sig-ex.com, 19% (8 requests) were made to S1.wp.com and 17% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (213 ms) relates to the external source Sigexdotcom.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

284.1 kB

After Optimization

220.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Sig-ex.com main page is 284.1 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 118.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 62.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 18.5 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. Sig Ex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 363 B

  • Original 118.6 kB
  • After minification 118.6 kB
  • After compression 118.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 432 B

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 60.5 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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. Sig-ex.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (69%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sig Ex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sig-ex.com accessibility score

93

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

sig-ex.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sig-ex.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sig-ex.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 Sig-ex.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 Sig Ex. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: