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castbox.fm

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castbox.fm page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 2.6 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

castbox.fm performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

castbox.fm

297 ms

castbox.fm

1570 ms

m.app.main.f6fe6822.chunk.css

62 ms

m.app.index.930bee52.chunk.css

64 ms

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56 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Castbox.fm, 52% (22 requests) were made to S3.castbox.fm and 29% (12 requests) were made to Is1-ssl.mzstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Castbox.fm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Castbox.fm main page is 4.6 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. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 273.7 kB

  • Original 345.1 kB
  • After minification 345.0 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 273.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Castbox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 167 B

  • Original 201.3 kB
  • After minification 201.3 kB
  • After compression 201.1 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 61 B

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Castbox.fm has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (30%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castbox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

castbox.fm 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 Castbox.fm 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 Castbox.fm 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 Castbox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: