Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

libsyn.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Libsyn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

libsyn.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.libsyn.com

93 ms

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273 ms

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291 ms

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239 ms

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285 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Libsyn.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Libsyn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

728.5 kB

After Optimization

599.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Libsyn.com main page is 728.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 590.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 65.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 590.0 kB
  • After minification 557.4 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. Libsyn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 29.2 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 716 B

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. Libsyn.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (53%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Libsyn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

libsyn.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

libsyn.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

libsyn.com SEO score

89

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

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 Libsyn.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 Libsyn.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 Libsyn. 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: