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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

selectbooks.co.za

SELECT BOOKS - Rare Books, Out of Print Africana & Sport Books

Page Load Speed

571 ms in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

476 ms

Page Rendered

68 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing SELECT BOOKS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about selectbooks.co.za

Select Books trades in Rare and Out of Print Africana Books, Art Books, History Books, Rugby & Cricket Books and other items of interest.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selectbooks.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 544 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

selectbooks.co.za performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

selectbooks.co.za

27 ms

selectbooks.co.za

119 ms

www.selectbooks.co.za

44 ms

bootstrap.min.css

113 ms

selectbooks.css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Selectbooks.co.za, 10% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (245 ms) belongs to the original domain Selectbooks.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

140.1 kB

After Optimization

124.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Selectbooks.co.za main page is 140.1 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. Images take 60.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 3.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 60.6 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. SELECT BOOKS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 6.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. Selectbooks.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SELECT BOOKS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

selectbooks.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

selectbooks.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

selectbooks.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Selectbooks.co.za 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 Selectbooks.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 description is not detected on the main page of SELECT BOOKS. 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: