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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

escapepod.org

Escape Pod | The Original Science Fiction Podcast

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Escapepod.org page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Escapepod.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

escapepod.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

escapepod.org

216 ms

style.css

138 ms

charc.css

140 ms

podpress.css

151 ms

1pixelout_audio-player.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Escapepod.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Murverse.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Podcastready.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 314.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Escapepod.org main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 98.4 kB

  • Original 127.9 kB
  • After minification 125.3 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 98.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Escape Pod images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 68.7 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 68.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Escapepod.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (38%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Escape Pod. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

escapepod.org

escapepod.org

216 ms

style.css

style.css

138 ms

charc.css

charc.css

140 ms

podpress.css

podpress.css

151 ms

1pixelout_audio-player.js

1pixelout_audio-player.js

152 ms

podpress.js

podpress.js

151 ms

style.php

style.php

537 ms

suckerfish.js

suckerfish.js

208 ms

external.js

external.js

208 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

147 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

75 ms

custom.css

custom.css

71 ms

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big_banner_dyptich.png

676 ms

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46 ms

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photo.jpg

95 ms

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663 ms

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667 ms

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822 ms

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670 ms

btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif

btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif

73 ms

button_rss_podcast.png

button_rss_podcast.png

662 ms

podcastready_button.gif

podcastready_button.gif

1942 ms

wrap-bg-top-trans.png

wrap-bg-top-trans.png

93 ms

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wrap-bg.png

95 ms

header-bg.gif

header-bg.gif

120 ms

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navscreen.png

93 ms

searchbg.gif

searchbg.gif

93 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

93 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

655 ms

arrowgray.gif

arrowgray.gif

656 ms

audio_mp3_button.png

audio_mp3_button.png

656 ms

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Artemis-Rising-2-FINAL-200x300.jpg

658 ms

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image1-300x300.jpg

656 ms

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661 ms

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660 ms

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657 ms

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Abra-Staffin-Wiebe-200.jpg

663 ms

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unnamed-1.jpg

660 ms

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IMG_1503-225x300.jpg

665 ms

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podcastle.png

661 ms

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662 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

69 ms

button_itunes.png

button_itunes.png

658 ms

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661 ms

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654 ms

FC_Bloglines.jpg

FC_Bloglines.jpg

650 ms

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FC_Juice.jpg

650 ms

wrap-bg-bottom-trans.png

wrap-bg-bottom-trans.png

523 ms

Accessibility Review

escapepod.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

escapepod.org 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

escapepod.org 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Escapepod.org 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 Escapepod.org 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

escapepod.org

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