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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

themusicschool.ca

Welcome To The Sound Factory Music School Online!

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

631 ms

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About Website

Welcome to themusicschool.ca homepage info - get ready to check The Music School best content right away, or after learning these important things about themusicschool.ca

Recognized as one of the finest studios in the region, the Sound Factory Music School offers lessons and programs for students of all ages and abilities. Our studio, located in Waterloo, ON, has spent...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themusicschool.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themusicschool.ca performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,000 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.666

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themusicschool.ca

108 ms

www.themusicschool.ca

141 ms

www.themusicschool.ca

267 ms

track.js

322 ms

sites.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Themusicschool.ca, 31% (38 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (978 ms) belongs to the original domain Themusicschool.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themusicschool.ca main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 150.5 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 177.1 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. 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 150.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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 Music School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 112.4 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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. Themusicschool.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (38%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Music School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

themusicschool.ca

themusicschool.ca

108 ms

www.themusicschool.ca

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141 ms

www.themusicschool.ca

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267 ms

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322 ms

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41 ms

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69 ms

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77 ms

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Accessibility Review

themusicschool.ca accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

themusicschool.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

themusicschool.ca SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Themusicschool.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 Themusicschool.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

themusicschool.ca

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