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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

stringsandbeyond.com

Guitar Strings and Beyond - Buy Guitar Strings Online and Save!

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

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About Website

Visit stringsandbeyond.com now to see the best up-to-date Strings And Beyond content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stringsandbeyond.com

The world's largest online store for Guitar Strings and Accessories with fast, friendly service and FREE shipping on all orders to US over $35! 1-877-830-0722.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stringsandbeyond.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stringsandbeyond.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stringsandbeyond.com

135 ms

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81 ms

www.stringsandbeyond.com

461 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

150 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Stringsandbeyond.com, 34% (35 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Stringsandbeyond.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stringsandbeyond.com main page is 2.8 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. 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 254.8 kB
  • After minification 192.1 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 62.7 kB, which is 25% 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 223.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Strings And Beyond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 334.1 kB
  • After minification 334.1 kB
  • After compression 317.6 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Stringsandbeyond.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (36%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Strings And Beyond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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135 ms

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Accessibility Review

stringsandbeyond.com accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

stringsandbeyond.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stringsandbeyond.com SEO score

86

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 Stringsandbeyond.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 Stringsandbeyond.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

stringsandbeyond.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Strings And Beyond. 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: