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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

themusicdept.com

Home - The Music Dept

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

Welcome to themusicdept.com homepage info - get ready to check The Music Dept best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about themusicdept.com

Guitar, amp and piano showroom and service centre on London Road in St Albans. Quality, value and service since 1980. Call 01727 898300

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themusicdept.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themusicdept.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themusicdept.com

2208 ms

js

74 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

229 ms

style.css

628 ms

frontend.css

337 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Themusicdept.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Themusicdept.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (59%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

761.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themusicdept.com main page is 1.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 73.5 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 60.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 193.4 kB
  • After minification 183.0 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. The Music Dept images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 611.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 487.7 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 611.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 417.9 kB

  • Original 492.9 kB
  • After minification 450.0 kB
  • After compression 74.9 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. Themusicdept.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 417.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (78%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Music Dept. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

themusicdept.com

themusicdept.com

2208 ms

js

js

74 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

229 ms

style.css

style.css

628 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

337 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

424 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

583 ms

upcoming-appointments.css

upcoming-appointments.css

315 ms

ssa-styles.css

ssa-styles.css

330 ms

form-styles.css

form-styles.css

437 ms

style.css

style.css

591 ms

picker-date-default.css

picker-date-default.css

461 ms

picker-date-default.date.css

picker-date-default.date.css

554 ms

tablepress-combined.min.css

tablepress-combined.min.css

557 ms

tmm_style.min.css

tmm_style.min.css

576 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

745 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

881 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

758 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

726 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

718 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

760 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

833 ms

jquery.forms.js

jquery.forms.js

852 ms

zxcvbn-async.min.js

zxcvbn-async.min.js

858 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

951 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

863 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

940 ms

picker.js

picker.js

977 ms

picker.date.js

picker.date.js

990 ms

forms.js

forms.js

974 ms

index.js

index.js

1020 ms

tmm.min.js

tmm.min.js

1054 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

1093 ms

all-products.css

all-products.css

1116 ms

front.js

front.js

1094 ms

site_main.js

site_main.js

1140 ms

awdr-dynamic-price.js

awdr-dynamic-price.js

1145 ms

password-strength-meter.min.js

password-strength-meter.min.js

1176 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

978 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

899 ms

sbi-sprite.png

sbi-sprite.png

191 ms

logo.png

logo.png

220 ms

themusicdept-store.jpg

themusicdept-store.jpg

467 ms

CLP-725B-1-300x168.jpg

CLP-725B-1-300x168.jpg

258 ms

CLP785-300x168.jpg

CLP785-300x168.jpg

306 ms

CLP-775-300x168.jpg

CLP-775-300x168.jpg

350 ms

CLP-745-300x168.jpg

CLP-745-300x168.jpg

380 ms

CLP-735-300x168.jpg

CLP-735-300x168.jpg

359 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

2353 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

108 ms

print.css

print.css

103 ms

zxcvbn.min.js

zxcvbn.min.js

370 ms

Accessibility Review

themusicdept.com accessibility score

90

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

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.

Best Practices

themusicdept.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

themusicdept.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Themusicdept.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 Themusicdept.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Music Dept. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: