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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% 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

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

books4cause.com

Donate Books, CDs & DVDs in Chicago | Books4Cause

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

604 ms

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About Website

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Books4Cause turns book donations into libraries for local and global literacy programs. Donate books at local bins, book drives and by mail.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Books4cause.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

books4cause.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

books4cause.com

92 ms

www.books4cause.com

715 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

37 ms

style.min.css

71 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Books4cause.com, 30% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) belongs to the original domain Books4cause.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

966.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Books4cause.com main page is 1.1 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 907.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 39.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 907.1 kB
  • After minification 865.3 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. Books4 Cause images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 313 B

  • Original 44.5 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 50.9 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. Books4cause.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (74%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books4 Cause. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

books4cause.com

books4cause.com

92 ms

www.books4cause.com

www.books4cause.com

715 ms

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37 ms

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71 ms

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98 ms

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102 ms

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99 ms

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58 ms

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139 ms

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133 ms

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145 ms

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126 ms

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127 ms

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72 ms

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widgets.js

38 ms

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primary-navigation.js

129 ms

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37 ms

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Books-for-Cause-logo-sm.png

118 ms

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142 ms

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213 ms

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74 ms

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79 ms

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66 ms

Accessibility Review

books4cause.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

books4cause.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

books4cause.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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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 Books4cause.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 Books4cause.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Books4 Cause. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: