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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com

MUSIC NEWS Scotland | supporting live music in all of Scotland

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

438 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,560 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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8 ms

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273 ms

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135 ms

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Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com, 16% (10 requests) were made to Live.staticflickr.com and 13% (8 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Platform.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

682.3 kB

After Optimization

565.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com main page is 682.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 342.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 138.7 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. 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 110.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 342.2 kB
  • After minification 336.9 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. MUSIC NEWS Scotland Wordpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 149.0 kB
  • After minification 149.0 kB
  • After compression 148.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 236 B

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MUSIC NEWS Scotland Wordpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com accessibility score

87

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com best practices score

67

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

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com SEO score

71

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

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 Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.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 Musicnewsscotland.wordpress.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

musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of MUSIC NEWS Scotland Wordpress. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: