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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

books.google.co.za

Google Books

Page Load Speed

691 ms in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

519 ms

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Books.google.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 641 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

books.google.co.za performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

books.google.co.za

50 ms

books.google.co.za

129 ms

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98 ms

googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png

42 ms

sem_a8aa7d421acb3759e7bbce56520cfb4a.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Books.google.co.za, 40% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.gstatic.com and 20% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (129 ms) belongs to the original domain Books.google.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.1 kB (56%)

Content Size

174.7 kB

After Optimization

76.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Books.google.co.za main page is 174.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 99.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 99.1 kB
  • After minification 99.1 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 65.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 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. Books Google images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 52.3 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 33.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books Google. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

books.google.co.za

books.google.co.za

50 ms

books.google.co.za

books.google.co.za

129 ms

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b_8d5afc09.png

98 ms

googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png

googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png

42 ms

sem_a8aa7d421acb3759e7bbce56520cfb4a.js

sem_a8aa7d421acb3759e7bbce56520cfb4a.js

13 ms

Accessibility Review

books.google.co.za accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

books.google.co.za 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

SEO Factors

books.google.co.za SEO score

85

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

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 Books.google.co.za 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 Books.google.co.za 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

books.google.co.za

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