Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 39

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

barcelonareview.com

The Barcelona Review. International Review of Contemporary Fiction. with literary quizzes, book reviews and interviews

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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An electronic, bilingual, bi-monthly, English-Spanish Review of Contemporary Fiction, REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE NARRATIVA BREVE CONTEMPORANEA also in Catalan

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barcelonareview.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barcelonareview.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barcelonareview.com

277 ms

www.barcelonareview.com

388 ms

2014.css

74 ms

eng_80.css

145 ms

brand

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Barcelonareview.com, 8% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) relates to the external source Es.nedstat.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

122.7 kB

After Optimization

105.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Barcelonareview.com main page is 122.7 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 92.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 4.6 kB, which is 24% 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 14.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 92.7 kB
  • After minification 92.7 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. Barcelona Review images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 140 B

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Barcelonareview.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barcelona Review. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

barcelonareview.com accessibility score

39

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

barcelonareview.com best practices score

42

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

barcelonareview.com SEO score

54

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

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 Barcelonareview.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 Barcelonareview.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 Barcelona Review. 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: