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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

fireside.fm

Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Welcome to Fireside!

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

618 ms

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

fireside.fm screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fireside.fm page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 2.5 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

fireside.fm performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fireside.fm

176 ms

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47 ms

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79 ms

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54 ms

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68 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Fireside.fm, 53% (20 requests) were made to A.fireside.fm and 16% (6 requests) were made to Fast.wistia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) relates to the external source A.fireside.fm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fireside.fm main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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 63.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 139.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Fireside images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 300.2 kB
  • After minification 300.2 kB
  • After compression 300.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Fireside.fm has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (31%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fireside. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fireside.fm

fireside.fm

176 ms

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47 ms

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79 ms

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54 ms

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68 ms

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69 ms

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41 ms

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45 ms

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69 ms

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Accessibility Review

fireside.fm accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

fireside.fm 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fireside.fm SEO score

82

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Fireside.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 Fireside.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

fireside.fm

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fireside. 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: