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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

songwriteruniverse.com

Songwriter Universe | Songwriting News, Articles, Contest

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Songwriter Universe content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about songwriteruniverse.com

SongwriterUniverse is an online music magazine supporting songwriters, songwriting, and the music community. Click to read our interviews & articles!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Songwriteruniverse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 668 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

songwriteruniverse.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.192

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.songwriteruniverse.com

668 ms

custom.css

85 ms

wgs2.css

81 ms

style.css

28 ms

main.min.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Songwriteruniverse.com, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Songwriteruniverse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

830.9 kB

After Optimization

697.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Songwriteruniverse.com main page is 830.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 442.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 81.6 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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. 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 81.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 442.3 kB
  • After minification 430.1 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. Songwriter Universe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 218.9 kB
  • After minification 218.9 kB
  • After compression 216.9 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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. Songwriteruniverse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (41%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Songwriter Universe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.songwriteruniverse.com

www.songwriteruniverse.com

668 ms

custom.css

custom.css

85 ms

wgs2.css

wgs2.css

81 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

124 ms

front-style.css

front-style.css

91 ms

wp-paginate.css

wp-paginate.css

26 ms

modernizr-2.7.0.min.js

modernizr-2.7.0.min.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

css

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37 ms

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38 ms

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51 ms

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162 ms

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224 ms

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162 ms

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114 ms

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83 ms

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82 ms

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81 ms

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83 ms

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307 ms

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412 ms

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388 ms

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29 ms

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71 ms

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46 ms

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34 ms

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28 ms

www.songwriteruniverse.com

www.songwriteruniverse.com

651 ms

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c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

songwriteruniverse.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

songwriteruniverse.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

songwriteruniverse.com SEO score

79

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Songwriteruniverse.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 Songwriteruniverse.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Songwriter Universe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: