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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

booksupstairs.ie

Books Upstairs | Dublin's Oldest Independent Bookshop

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

465 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

749 ms

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About Website

Welcome to booksupstairs.ie homepage info - get ready to check Books Upstairs best content for Albania right away, or after learning these important things about booksupstairs.ie

Books Upstairs is Ireland's oldest independent bookshop, trading in Dublin since 1978. We have an extensive selection of titles, ranging from politics and philosophy to Irish and international fi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Booksupstairs.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 465 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

booksupstairs.ie performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.354

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Booksupstairs.ie, 4% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Booksupstairs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Booksupstairs.ie main page is 2.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 150.8 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 176.2 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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 150.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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 Upstairs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 623.0 kB
  • After minification 623.0 kB
  • After compression 620.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. Booksupstairs.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (30%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

62

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books Upstairs. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

booksupstairs.ie accessibility score

88

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.

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

booksupstairs.ie best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

booksupstairs.ie SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

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 Booksupstairs.ie 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 Booksupstairs.ie 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

booksupstairs.ie

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