Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thetalentcast.com

The Talent Cast: the world's most caffeinated employer brand podcast

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

Welcome to thetalentcast.com homepage info - get ready to check The Talent Cast best content right away, or after learning these important things about thetalentcast.com

The Talent Cast podcast will show you how employer branding and recruitment marketingcan help even your company hire better talent

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetalentcast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 9.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetalentcast.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thetalentcast.com

2381 ms

js

137 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

112 ms

style.min.css

244 ms

wordpress-svg-icon-plugin-style.min.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Thetalentcast.com, 31% (29 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Substackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thetalentcast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thetalentcast.com main page is 2.7 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. 85% 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 59.1 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 68.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 59.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 253.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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, The Talent Cast needs image optimization as it can save up to 253.5 kB or 11% 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 1.6 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 156.5 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 128.4 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. Thetalentcast.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (51%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Talent Cast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thetalentcast.com accessibility score

66

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thetalentcast.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thetalentcast.com SEO score

92

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

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 Thetalentcast.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 Thetalentcast.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 data is detected on the main page of The Talent Cast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: