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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

songwritingcompetition.com

International Songwriting Competition | The #1 Song Contest for Songwriters

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Songwritingcompetition.com page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

songwritingcompetition.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.504

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

songwritingcompetition.com

312 ms

songwritingcompetition.com

462 ms

style.css

103 ms

jquery.min.js

16 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Songwritingcompetition.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Songwritingcompetition.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Songwritingcompetition.com main page is 3.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 11.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 306.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, Songwriting Competition needs image optimization as it can save up to 306.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 168.2 kB
  • After minification 168.2 kB
  • After compression 79.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 88.5 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Songwritingcompetition.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 205 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Songwriting Competition. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

songwritingcompetition.com

songwritingcompetition.com

312 ms

songwritingcompetition.com

songwritingcompetition.com

462 ms

style.css

style.css

103 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

16 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

204 ms

jcarousellite_fixed.js

jcarousellite_fixed.js

306 ms

audio.min.js

audio.min.js

307 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

4096 ms

element.js

element.js

46 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

bg.png

bg.png

506 ms

bg_body.png

bg_body.png

267 ms

isclogo2022.png

isclogo2022.png

266 ms

nav_vr.png

nav_vr.png

131 ms

title_judges.png

title_judges.png

130 ms

10.png

10.png

756 ms

30.png

30.png

762 ms

20.png

20.png

975 ms

60.png

60.png

979 ms

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1.png

976 ms

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809 ms

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958 ms

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2.png

1374 ms

50.png

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1417 ms

title_welcome.png

title_welcome.png

1061 ms

title_enter.png

title_enter.png

1076 ms

title_news.png

title_news.png

1077 ms

title_press.png

title_press.png

1079 ms

title_subscribe.png

title_subscribe.png

1162 ms

title_side_whatwinnerssay.png

title_side_whatwinnerssay.png

1177 ms

title_side_winners.png

title_side_winners.png

1178 ms

title_side_sponsors.png

title_side_sponsors.png

1181 ms

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Lurssen150x150.jpg

1264 ms

Roli%20150x150.png

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1278 ms

title_side_partners.png

title_side_partners.png

1278 ms

ncfblues100x00.jpg

ncfblues100x00.jpg

1283 ms

bands-for-hire.jpg

bands-for-hire.jpg

1365 ms

title_side_musicresources.png

title_side_musicresources.png

1379 ms

title_side_followuson.png

title_side_followuson.png

1380 ms

fb.png

fb.png

1385 ms

ig.png

ig.png

1465 ms

tw.png

tw.png

1473 ms

songbox_logo_468x60.png

songbox_logo_468x60.png

1479 ms

nav_bg.png

nav_bg.png

1476 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

48 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

27 ms

bg_blue.png

bg_blue.png

1466 ms

bg_green.png

bg_green.png

1495 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

42 ms

ga.js

ga.js

41 ms

collect

collect

32 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

collect

collect

4 ms

bg_salmon.png

bg_salmon.png

1441 ms

js

js

38 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

110 ms

Accessibility Review

songwritingcompetition.com accessibility score

81

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

songwritingcompetition.com best practices score

75

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

songwritingcompetition.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Songwritingcompetition.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 Songwritingcompetition.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

songwritingcompetition.com

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