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cnet.downloads.com

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cnet.downloads.com page load time and found that the first response time was 355 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cnet.downloads.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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355 ms

www.cnet.com

155 ms

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70 ms

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161 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cnet.downloads.com, 39% (27 requests) were made to Cnet2.cbsistatic.com and 17% (12 requests) were made to Cnet1.cbsistatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (355 ms) belongs to the original domain Cnet.downloads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 784.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cnet.downloads.com main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 203.2 kB

  • Original 241.4 kB
  • After minification 184.5 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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 56.9 kB, which is 24% 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 203.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Cnet Downloads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 160.2 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 233.1 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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 160.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 386.8 kB

  • Original 432.7 kB
  • After minification 431.5 kB
  • After compression 45.9 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. Cnet.downloads.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 386.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (12%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cnet Downloads. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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355 ms

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155 ms

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SEO Factors

cnet.downloads.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cnet.downloads.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Cnet.downloads.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

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