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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cheaptexts.ca

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Page Load Speed

488 ms in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

286 ms

Page Rendered

73 ms

About Website

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Cheaptexts.ca is a resource that helps students find the best price for textbooks quickly. For students going to university in Waterloo, students living in Waterloo, and other students.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cheaptexts.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 359 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cheaptexts.ca performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cheaptexts.ca

129 ms

main.css

28 ms

validisbn.js

45 ms

show_ads.js

19 ms

logo.png

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Cheaptexts.ca, 33% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (129 ms) belongs to the original domain Cheaptexts.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

155.4 kB

After Optimization

92.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cheaptexts.ca main page is 155.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 108.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 37.9 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 33.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Obviously, Cheap Texts needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 108.3 kB
  • After minification 108.3 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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 27.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 185 B

  • Original 855 B
  • After minification 855 B
  • After compression 670 B

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. Cheaptexts.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 185 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cheap Texts. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cheaptexts.ca accessibility score

89

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

cheaptexts.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cheaptexts.ca SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cheaptexts.ca 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 Cheaptexts.ca 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 description is not detected on the main page of Cheap Texts. 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: