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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

stringemporium.com

The String Emporium,The Upright Bass Specialist, Cellos, Violins and Instrument Cases

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

872 ms

Page Rendered

229 ms

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About Website

Visit stringemporium.com now to see the best up-to-date String Emporium content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stringemporium.com

String Emporium sells fine string instruments. Specializing in upright bass, bass bows, strings, violins, viola, cellos and accessories.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stringemporium.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stringemporium.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stringemporium.com

205 ms

main.css

109 ms

DM_redirect.js

11 ms

count.js

67 ms

count.js

380 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Stringemporium.com, 21% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (45%)

Content Size

174.8 kB

After Optimization

96.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stringemporium.com main page is 174.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 76.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 6.3 kB, which is 13% 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 39.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 76.6 kB
  • After minification 76.5 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. String Emporium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 36.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 459 B

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. Stringemporium.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (56%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of String Emporium. 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

stringemporium.com

stringemporium.com

205 ms

main.css

main.css

109 ms

DM_redirect.js

DM_redirect.js

11 ms

count.js

count.js

67 ms

count.js

count.js

380 ms

index.htm

index.htm

174 ms

all.js

all.js

81 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

46 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

75 ms

top1.jpg

top1.jpg

75 ms

top2new.jpg

top2new.jpg

121 ms

links_bg.gif

links_bg.gif

121 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

121 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

121 ms

facebook_sml.png

facebook_sml.png

121 ms

videos.gif

videos.gif

119 ms

icon_right.gif

icon_right.gif

173 ms

newsletter.gif

newsletter.gif

180 ms

safe_subscribe_logo.gif

safe_subscribe_logo.gif

173 ms

img1.jpg

img1.jpg

218 ms

img2.jpg

img2.jpg

185 ms

linksbottom.gif

linksbottom.gif

184 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

9 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

48 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

102 ms

75 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

88 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

150 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

62 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

23 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

24 ms

grlryt2bdKIyfMSOhzd1eA.woff

grlryt2bdKIyfMSOhzd1eA.woff

44 ms

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

30 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

27 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

6 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

133 ms

like.php

like.php

67 ms

TY3MhkXpWJ-.js

TY3MhkXpWJ-.js

139 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

153 ms

Accessibility Review

stringemporium.com accessibility score

55

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

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

stringemporium.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stringemporium.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stringemporium.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 Stringemporium.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

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