Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

macmillan.co.za

Home | Macmillan South Africa

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

845 ms

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

917 ms

macmillan.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macmillan.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 845 ms and then it took 12.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macmillan.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.362

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macmillan.co.za

845 ms

www.macmillan.co.za

1391 ms

bootstrap.min.css

531 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

528 ms

loader.css

800 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Macmillan.co.za, 25% (26 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Macmillan.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 845.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Macmillan.co.za main page is 4.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 40.1 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.1 kB, which is 23% 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 43.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 240.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Macmillan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 285.7 kB

  • Original 412.7 kB
  • After minification 406.4 kB
  • After compression 127.1 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 285.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 276.4 kB

  • Original 332.8 kB
  • After minification 331.9 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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. Macmillan.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 276.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (36%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Macmillan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

macmillan.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

macmillan.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

macmillan.co.za SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Macmillan.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 Macmillan.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

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