Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

stepsequencer.net

Lauflicht Step Sequencer Launchpad Edition - Startpage

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

387 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stepsequencer.net page load time and found that the first response time was 387 ms and then it took 1.6 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

stepsequencer.net performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,070 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stepsequencer.net

387 ms

style.css

117 ms

ga.js

12 ms

stepseqdrehk2.png

735 ms

__utm.gif

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Stepsequencer.net, 31% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) belongs to the original domain Stepsequencer.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

767.1 kB

After Optimization

750.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Stepsequencer.net main page is 767.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 505.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.1 kB, which is 41% 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 9.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 505.5 kB
  • After minification 505.5 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. Step Sequencer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 184.1 kB
  • After minification 184.1 kB
  • After compression 181.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 61.0 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. Stepsequencer.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (38%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Step Sequencer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stepsequencer.net accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

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.

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

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

stepsequencer.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stepsequencer.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stepsequencer.net 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 Stepsequencer.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Step Sequencer. 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: