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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

readerviews.com

Book Reviews - Book Awards - Author Publicity - Reader Views

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

568 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readerviews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 568 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

readerviews.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

readerviews.com

568 ms

css

14 ms

common-977e2fa52a5aa3ac3c27-min.js

65 ms

site.css

189 ms

site.js

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Readerviews.com, 65% (11 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com and 24% (4 requests) were made to Static.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (568 ms) belongs to the original domain Readerviews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 456.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Readerviews.com main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 965.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 136.3 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 15.8 kB, which is 12% 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 116.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 965.5 kB
  • After minification 962.2 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. Reader Views images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 134.4 kB

  • Original 205.3 kB
  • After minification 205.2 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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 134.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.7 kB

  • Original 244.2 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Readerviews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reader Views. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

readerviews.com

readerviews.com

568 ms

css

css

14 ms

common-977e2fa52a5aa3ac3c27-min.js

common-977e2fa52a5aa3ac3c27-min.js

65 ms

site.css

site.css

189 ms

site.js

site.js

226 ms

Reader_Views_banner.gif

Reader_Views_banner.gif

467 ms

Nicole%2BTaylor.jpg

Nicole%2BTaylor.jpg

391 ms

SchooledOnFat.jpg

SchooledOnFat.jpg

41 ms

squarespace-ui-font.svg

squarespace-ui-font.svg

7 ms

squarespace-ui-font.svg

squarespace-ui-font.svg

8 ms

Webster_Nexus_COVER1-194x300.jpg

Webster_Nexus_COVER1-194x300.jpg

39 ms

KAI.jpg

KAI.jpg

6 ms

TheGreatestWish.jpg

TheGreatestWish.jpg

35 ms

ZealysVeryFirstSwim.jpg

ZealysVeryFirstSwim.jpg

40 ms

TheMasterHacker.jpg

TheMasterHacker.jpg

40 ms

HeavenIsAGayBar.jpg

HeavenIsAGayBar.jpg

10 ms

WhosNew.jpg

WhosNew.jpg

4 ms

Accessibility Review

readerviews.com accessibility score

65

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

readerviews.com 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

readerviews.com SEO score

81

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Readerviews.com 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 Readerviews.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 Reader Views. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: