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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

booksamillion.com

BAM! Books, Toys & More | Books-A-Million Online Book Store

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Books A Million content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about booksamillion.com

Find books, toys & tech, including ebooks, movies, music & textbooks. Free shipping and more for Millionaire's Club members. Visit our book stores, or shop online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Booksamillion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

booksamillion.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

booksamillion.com

39 ms

booksamillion.com

135 ms

mobiledirect.js

137 ms

shadowbox_20120705.css

189 ms

base.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Booksamillion.com, 31% (34 requests) were made to Images.booksamillion.com and 19% (20 requests) were made to Js.booksamillion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source A1.booksamillion.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (34%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Booksamillion.com main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 627.3 kB

  • Original 702.0 kB
  • After minification 637.5 kB
  • After compression 74.7 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 627.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Books A Million images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 435.3 kB

  • Original 953.9 kB
  • After minification 950.8 kB
  • After compression 518.6 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 435.3 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (68%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books A Million. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

booksamillion.com accessibility score

81

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

booksamillion.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

booksamillion.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Booksamillion.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 Booksamillion.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

booksamillion.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Books A Million. 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: