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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

soundcloud.io

Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

58 ms

soundcloud.io screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soundcloud.io page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 1.1 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

soundcloud.io performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soundcloud.com

134 ms

tags.js

66 ms

inter-43e88497e6ff16c818c5.css

106 ms

app-8c4cd9a3d7e6d5355c24.css

56 ms

54-ed770211.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Soundcloud.io, 6% (1 request) were made to Soundcloud.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Dwt.soundcloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (245 ms) relates to the external source A-v2.sndcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soundcloud.io main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 15.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 10.0 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. Obviously, Sound Cloud needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 104 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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 0 B

  • Original 89.0 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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. Soundcloud.io has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (59%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sound Cloud. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

soundcloud.com

soundcloud.com

134 ms

tags.js

tags.js

66 ms

inter-43e88497e6ff16c818c5.css

inter-43e88497e6ff16c818c5.css

106 ms

app-8c4cd9a3d7e6d5355c24.css

app-8c4cd9a3d7e6d5355c24.css

56 ms

54-ed770211.js

54-ed770211.js

51 ms

52-e87dd851.js

52-e87dd851.js

64 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

99 ms

16-90226686.js

16-90226686.js

64 ms

53-a7bf8431.js

53-a7bf8431.js

54 ms

1-d411d342.js

1-d411d342.js

99 ms

0-4e7c20fc.js

0-4e7c20fc.js

76 ms

2-6c8bbf3e.js

2-6c8bbf3e.js

76 ms

51-5d396789.js

51-5d396789.js

99 ms

50-b7b84992.js

50-b7b84992.js

102 ms

cloud-e365a472bf.png

cloud-e365a472bf.png

244 ms

loader-dark-45940ae3d4.gif

loader-dark-45940ae3d4.gif

245 ms

500-e5a180b7a8.png

500-e5a180b7a8.png

14 ms

browser-9cdd4e6df7.png

browser-9cdd4e6df7.png

14 ms

Accessibility Review

soundcloud.io accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

soundcloud.io 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

soundcloud.io SEO score

99

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

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 Soundcloud.io 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 Soundcloud.io 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

soundcloud.io

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