Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

smackmypitchup.com

smackmypitchup.com - ear training for sound engineers

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

73 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smackmypitchup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smackmypitchup.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

54 ms

format.css

34 ms

functions.js

151 ms

prototype.js

270 ms

scriptaculous.js

518 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Smackmypitchup.com, 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to I.creativecommons.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) belongs to the original domain Smackmypitchup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

87.6 kB

After Optimization

71.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Smackmypitchup.com main page is 87.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 61.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.0 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 38 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.0 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. Smackmypitchup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 50.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 184 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Smackmypitchup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (60%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smackmypitchup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smackmypitchup.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.

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

Best Practices

smackmypitchup.com best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

smackmypitchup.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

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

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