Access digstation.com. CD Baby: Digital Music Distribution

digstation.com

209 ms

www.cdbaby.com

2330 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

8 ms

scripts-updatepanels.js

6 ms

home-genre.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Digstation.com, 51% (45 requests) were made to Cdbaby.com and 27% (24 requests) were made to Images.cdbaby.name. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdbaby.com.

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

941.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Digstation.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 693.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 469.1 kB

Original 526.0 kB
After minification 458.4 kB
After compression 56.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 67.6 kB, which is 13% 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 469.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 872 B

Original 693.5 kB
After minification 692.7 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. Digstation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 391.8 kB

Original 565.6 kB
After minification 480.5 kB
After compression 173.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 391.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 103.0 kB

Original 120.6 kB
After minification 87.3 kB
After compression 17.6 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. Digstation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digstation. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.