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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

castdesk.com

Best Corporate Video and Audio Podcast Platform | CastDesk

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

998 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Visit castdesk.com now to see the best up-to-date Cast Desk content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about castdesk.com

CastDesk, a product by CircleHD Inc, is the most Secure Video and Audio Podcasting Platform for Corporate Communication, Employee Engagement & Sales Enablement.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castdesk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castdesk.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castdesk.com

140 ms

animate.min.css

81 ms

bootstrap.min.css

103 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

79 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Castdesk.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (530 ms) belongs to the original domain Castdesk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castdesk.com main page is 4.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 26.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Cast Desk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 132.2 kB
  • After compression 128.0 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

-45%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. Castdesk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (45%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cast Desk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

castdesk.com

castdesk.com

140 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

81 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

103 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

79 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

77 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

88 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

75 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

129 ms

style.css

style.css

126 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

88 ms

js

js

47 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

64 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

228 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

176 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

81 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

90 ms

jquery.counterup.min.js

jquery.counterup.min.js

177 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

102 ms

wow.js

wow.js

169 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

194 ms

jquery.ajaxchimp.min.js

jquery.ajaxchimp.min.js

177 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

173 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

172 ms

theme.js

theme.js

173 ms

css2

css2

25 ms

castdesk-intro-video-draft-GLwksZdsPf

castdesk-intro-video-draft-GLwksZdsPf

361 ms

logo-dark.svg

logo-dark.svg

136 ms

banner-bg-2-2.png

banner-bg-2-2.png

138 ms

lg.jpg

lg.jpg

161 ms

integration-logos.jpg

integration-logos.jpg

139 ms

cta-line-1-1.png

cta-line-1-1.png

138 ms

iphonex_mockup2.png

iphonex_mockup2.png

208 ms

cta-2-bg-1-1.png

cta-2-bg-1-1.png

162 ms

cta-line-1-2.png

cta-line-1-2.png

163 ms

profile-dark.png

profile-dark.png

304 ms

analytics.png

analytics.png

294 ms

recording.png

recording.png

244 ms

banner-bg-2-1.png

banner-bg-2-1.png

227 ms

download.PNG

download.PNG

289 ms

iphonex_mockup2-dark.png

iphonex_mockup2-dark.png

357 ms

management-icon.png

management-icon.png

302 ms

searchicon.png

searchicon.png

340 ms

player.png

player.png

448 ms

securitynew.png

securitynew.png

407 ms

aclsecurity.png

aclsecurity.png

382 ms

complianceicon.png

complianceicon.png

406 ms

testi-bg-1-1.jpg

testi-bg-1-1.jpg

487 ms

audacity.png

audacity.png

463 ms

presentation.svg

presentation.svg

390 ms

lg.jpg

lg.jpg

467 ms

logo-light.svg

logo-light.svg

479 ms

appstore.svg

appstore.svg

502 ms

playstore.svg

playstore.svg

530 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

482 ms

diffuser.js

diffuser.js

23 ms

prism.app-us1.com

prism.app-us1.com

97 ms

8-q4jh2Pky.css

8-q4jh2Pky.css

21 ms

3LZ9JNd15-sm.jpg

3LZ9JNd15-sm.jpg

52 ms

Accessibility Review

castdesk.com accessibility score

65

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

castdesk.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castdesk.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Castdesk.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 Castdesk.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

castdesk.com

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