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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

whatsonreading.com

The ultimate listings guide for Reading | What's On Reading

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

About Website

Visit whatsonreading.com now to see the best up-to-date Whatson Reading content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about whatsonreading.com

What's On Reading is the ultimate listings guide for arts, culture and heritage events in the Reading area. A one-stop shop to find out what's on in Reading, every day.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatsonreading.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 3.8 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

whatsonreading.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatsonreading.com

222 ms

hotjar.script.js

136 ms

google_tag.script.js

142 ms

better_exposed_filters.css

142 ms

normalize.css

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Whatsonreading.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (576 ms) belongs to the original domain Whatsonreading.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

999.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whatsonreading.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 713.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 74.8 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 63.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 713.7 kB
  • After minification 713.4 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. Whatson Reading images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 259.4 kB
  • After minification 258.9 kB
  • After compression 244.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 110.8 kB

  • Original 133.0 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Whatsonreading.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 110.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (68%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whatson Reading. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

whatsonreading.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

whatsonreading.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whatsonreading.com SEO score

86

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

Links are not crawlable

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