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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

readerscircle.com

Reader's Circle: Local Listings for Book Clubs and Author Events in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, San Fr...

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Reader S Circle content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about readerscircle.com

Book club networking site serving the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with listings for local groups, author events, & phone chats.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readerscircle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

readerscircle.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

readerscircle.com

152 ms

readerscircle.com

263 ms

www.readerscircle.org

457 ms

reset.css

127 ms

colorbox.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Readerscircle.com, 96% (116 requests) were made to Readerscircle.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (981 ms) relates to the external source Readerscircle.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Readerscircle.com main page is 6.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 69.3 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 15.7 kB, which is 18% 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 69.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Reader S Circle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 299.3 kB
  • After minification 299.3 kB
  • After compression 216.1 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 83.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. Readerscircle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (36%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reader S Circle. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

readerscircle.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

Best Practices

readerscircle.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

readerscircle.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Readerscircle.com 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 Readerscircle.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Reader S Circle. 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: