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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theguitarcorner.ca

Home | The Guitar Corner | Kitchener Waterloo Region, Ontario

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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About Website

Welcome to theguitarcorner.ca homepage info - get ready to check The Guitar Corner best content right away, or after learning these important things about theguitarcorner.ca

Welcome to The Guitar Corner webstore! Shop online, register for courses, purchase lessons, check out vintage and used gear.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theguitarcorner.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theguitarcorner.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theguitarcorner.ca

36 ms

www.theguitarcorner.ca

162 ms

font-awesome.min.css

80 ms

css2

79 ms

all.min.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Theguitarcorner.ca, 29% (23 requests) were made to Media.musicshop360.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (856 ms) relates to the external source Media.musicshop360.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theguitarcorner.ca main page is 7.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 123.7 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 95.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 302.6 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. The Guitar Corner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 564.0 kB
  • After minification 562.0 kB
  • After compression 552.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 168.1 kB
  • After compression 168.0 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. Theguitarcorner.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (50%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Guitar Corner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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36 ms

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162 ms

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95 ms

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87 ms

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Accessibility Review

theguitarcorner.ca accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

theguitarcorner.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

theguitarcorner.ca SEO score

93

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

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 Theguitarcorner.ca 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 Theguitarcorner.ca 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

theguitarcorner.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Guitar Corner. 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: