Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

glowcast.co.uk

Glowcast Audio Mastering - A Berlin based professional audio studio

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

954 ms

Page Rendered

146 ms

glowcast.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Glowcast content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about glowcast.co.uk

Glowcast Audio Mastering is a world class Berlin based audio mastering and mixing studio, owned by award winning sound engineer Conor Dalton.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glowcast.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glowcast.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glowcast.co.uk

242 ms

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81 ms

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209 ms

css

26 ms

css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Glowcast.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (419 ms) relates to the external source Load.sumome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 347.8 kB (46%)

Content Size

756.6 kB

After Optimization

408.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Glowcast.co.uk main page is 756.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 358.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. 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 21.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 247.1 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. Glowcast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 222.7 kB

  • Original 358.9 kB
  • After minification 358.2 kB
  • After compression 136.3 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 222.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 82.9 kB

  • Original 100.3 kB
  • After minification 93.1 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Glowcast.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glowcast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glowcast.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

glowcast.co.uk 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

glowcast.co.uk SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Glowcast.co.uk 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 Glowcast.co.uk 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 Glowcast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: