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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

booksandquills.co.uk

Booksandquills | UK Travel, Culture, London and Books

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

837 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit booksandquills.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Booksandquills content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about booksandquills.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Booksandquills.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

booksandquills.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.booksandquills.co.uk

56 ms

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24 ms

css2

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legacy.js

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modern.js

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Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Booksandquills.co.uk, 36% (16 requests) were made to Images.squarespace-cdn.com and 27% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (477 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 342.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

11.1 MB

After Optimization

10.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Booksandquills.co.uk main page is 11.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 226.0 kB

  • Original 254.8 kB
  • After minification 209.6 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.2 kB, which is 18% 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 226.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 109.0 kB

  • Original 9.8 MB
  • After minification 9.7 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. Booksandquills images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 979.8 kB
  • After minification 979.8 kB
  • After compression 975.2 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Booksandquills.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (33%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Booksandquills. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.booksandquills.co.uk

www.booksandquills.co.uk

56 ms

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24 ms

css2

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96 ms

legacy.js

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33 ms

modern.js

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Accessibility Review

booksandquills.co.uk accessibility score

85

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

booksandquills.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

booksandquills.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Booksandquills.co.uk 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 Booksandquills.co.uk 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

booksandquills.co.uk

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