Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

barnesandnoble.com

Online Bookstore: Books, NOOK ebooks, Music, Movies & Toys | Barnes & Noble®

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

117 ms

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About Website

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Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barnesandnoble.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 10.3 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

barnesandnoble.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.barnesandnoble.com

143 ms

02b4bd4da773b1c6ba523607dbff42ea7ab0011ba05c2

100 ms

ebiaklm7tP0ykOyjm7KGfgNcPyo.js

74 ms

aksb.min.js

73 ms

3da7999c

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Barnesandnoble.com, 26% (18 requests) were made to Css.css-bn.com and 19% (13 requests) were made to Js.js-bn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.cookielaw.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 502.9 kB (63%)

Content Size

801.2 kB

After Optimization

298.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Barnesandnoble.com main page is 801.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 581.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 493.7 kB

  • Original 581.3 kB
  • After minification 575.1 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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 493.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 86.9 kB
  • After minification 86.9 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. Barnes And Noble images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 133.1 kB
  • After minification 132.5 kB
  • After compression 123.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (69%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barnes And Noble. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

barnesandnoble.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

barnesandnoble.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

barnesandnoble.com SEO score

88

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Barnesandnoble.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 Barnesandnoble.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 Barnes And Noble. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: