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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

open.spotify.com

Spotify - Web Player: Music for everyone

Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

8.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Open.spotify.com page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 20.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

open.spotify.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

open.spotify.com

256 ms

browse

352 ms

open.becf54c2.css

1071 ms

open.b6bf45f2.js

2342 ms

vt-150.js

1013 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Open.spotify.com, 28% (8 requests) were made to I.scdn.co and 17% (5 requests) were made to Sp-bootstrap.global.ssl.fastly.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source I.scdn.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

793.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Open.spotify.com main page is 1.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 729.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.8 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 19.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 729.4 kB
  • After minification 721.4 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. Open Spotify images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 28.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 168.3 kB

  • Original 202.2 kB
  • After minification 202.1 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Open.spotify.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open Spotify. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

open.spotify.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

open.spotify.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

open.spotify.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 Open.spotify.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 Open.spotify.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 data is detected on the main page of Open Spotify. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: