Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

downloads.cnet.com

Free Software Downloads and Reviews for Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS – CNET Download

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downloads.cnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 2.2 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

downloads.cnet.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downloads.cnet.com

84 ms

download.cnet.com

129 ms

gpt.js

223 ms

ads.js

170 ms

prebid-client.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 218 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Downloads.cnet.com, 89% (195 requests) were made to Images.dwncdn.net and 3% (7 requests) were made to Assets.dwncdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) relates to the external source Images.dwncdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Downloads.cnet.com main page is 2.1 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. 75% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 224.3 kB

  • Original 267.8 kB
  • After minification 267.8 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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 224.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Downloads CNET images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 190 B

  • Original 218.0 kB
  • After minification 218.0 kB
  • After compression 217.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (7%)

Requests Now

216

After Optimization

201

The browser has sent 216 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downloads CNET. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

downloads.cnet.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

downloads.cnet.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

downloads.cnet.com SEO score

93

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

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 Downloads.cnet.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 Downloads.cnet.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 Downloads CNET. 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: