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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

soulexpress.net

Classic Soul Music Magazine|CD Reviews|Soul Express

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

347 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Soul Express content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about soulexpress.net

Soul Music Magazine specializing in classic soul music and funk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soulexpress.net page load time and found that the first response time was 347 ms and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soulexpress.net performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soulexpress.net

347 ms

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554 ms

plusone.js

44 ms

js

76 ms

brand

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Soulexpress.net, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Soulexpress.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 791.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

14.1 MB

After Optimization

13.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Soulexpress.net main page is 14.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 14.1 kB, which is 29% 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 41.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 750.1 kB

  • Original 13.9 MB
  • After minification 13.2 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. Soul Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 331 B

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB
  • After compression 121.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (9%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

83

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soul Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

soulexpress.net accessibility score

50

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

soulexpress.net best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

soulexpress.net SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

soulexpress.net

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