Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

podcastmatters.co.uk

Podcastmatters.co.uk — All Podcasts You Need to Know About - Podcastmatters.co.uk

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

432 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Welcome to podcastmatters.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Podcastmatters best content right away, or after learning these important things about podcastmatters.co.uk

If you have had a chance at reading instruction articles or watching instruction videos, you will definitely find podcasts familiar. Podcasts take the audio

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Key Findings

We analyzed Podcastmatters.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 432 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

podcastmatters.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.636

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.podcastmatters.co.uk

432 ms

style.css

96 ms

css

24 ms

style.min.css

273 ms

shortcodes.css

292 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Podcastmatters.co.uk, 11% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (950 ms) belongs to the original domain Podcastmatters.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Podcastmatters.co.uk 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 21.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 393.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 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. Obviously, Podcastmatters needs image optimization as it can save up to 393.6 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 775 B

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 69.6 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Podcastmatters.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Podcastmatters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

podcastmatters.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

podcastmatters.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

podcastmatters.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Podcastmatters.co.uk 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 Podcastmatters.co.uk 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 Podcastmatters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: