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howl.fm

Howl Premium - Welcome To Better Podcasts

Page Load Speed

23.1 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

18.1 sec

Page Rendered

4.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howl.fm page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 23 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

howl.fm

88 ms

20160229_053706_7408_9301.css

124 ms

jquery.min.js

107 ms

jquery.jplayer.min.js

102 ms

gumroad.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 257 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Howl.fm, 59% (151 requests) were made to Cdn-a.stagebloc.com and 7% (18 requests) were made to Uc2.cdn-stagebloc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.stagebloc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (9%)

Content Size

29.0 MB

After Optimization

26.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Howl.fm main page is 29.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 25.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 130.9 kB

  • Original 147.9 kB
  • After minification 93.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 54.8 kB, which is 37% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 130.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 383.1 kB

  • Original 25.8 MB
  • After minification 25.4 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. Howl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 696.3 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 1.3 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 953.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 920.1 kB
  • After compression 143.4 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. Howl.fm needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 953.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (19%)

Requests Now

249

After Optimization

202

The browser has sent 249 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Howl.fm can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Howl.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

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