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cabot-corp.com

Cabot Corporation | Specialty Chemicals and Performance Materials

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

715 ms

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Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Our businesses deliver a broad range of products an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cabot-corp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cabot-corp.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cabot-corp.com

136 ms

www.cabotcorp.com

2056 ms

295 ms

screen.css

97 ms

modernizr.custom.96609.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cabot-corp.com, 28% (20 requests) were made to Cabotcorp.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Webfonts.typetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Pi.pardot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 687.9 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Cabot-corp.com main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.6 kB, which is 31% 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 31.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 154.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Cabot Corp needs image optimization as it can save up to 154.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 352.5 kB

  • Original 491.2 kB
  • After minification 426.6 kB
  • After compression 138.7 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 352.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 149.4 kB

  • Original 175.0 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. Cabot-corp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (52%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cabot Corp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cabot-corp.com SEO score

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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 Cabot-corp.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 Cabot-corp.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cabot Corp. 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: