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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

breakwaterbooks.com

Breakwater Books Ltd | Newfoundland's Premier Publisher since 1973 – Breakwater Books Limited

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Publishing the best in literary, educational, and general interest books from Newfoundland and Labrador and around the world. Breakwater Books is Newfoundland's oldest publisher with a backlist of...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Breakwaterbooks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Breakwaterbooks.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

breakwaterbooks.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

breakwaterbooks.com

352 ms

www.breakwaterbooks.com

1479 ms

flick.css

92 ms

www.breakwaterbooks.com

248 ms

zebra_tooltips.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Breakwaterbooks.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Sites.ceemess.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Breakwaterbooks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.1 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

476.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Breakwaterbooks.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 441.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 62.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 333.7 kB
  • After minification 299.0 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. Breakwater Books images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 318.2 kB

  • Original 441.3 kB
  • After minification 402.1 kB
  • After compression 123.0 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 318.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 218.7 kB

  • Original 256.8 kB
  • After minification 236.4 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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. Breakwaterbooks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (64%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Breakwater Books. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

breakwaterbooks.com

breakwaterbooks.com

352 ms

www.breakwaterbooks.com

www.breakwaterbooks.com

1479 ms

flick.css

flick.css

92 ms

www.breakwaterbooks.com

www.breakwaterbooks.com

248 ms

zebra_tooltips.css

zebra_tooltips.css

57 ms

atviewer.css

atviewer.css

56 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

317 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

603 ms

events_manager.css

events_manager.css

128 ms

style.css

style.css

309 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

365 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

403 ms

scrollTo.js

scrollTo.js

314 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

363 ms

mailchimp.js

mailchimp.js

357 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.js

jquery.ui.core.min.js

362 ms

datepicker.js

datepicker.js

817 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

495 ms

atviewer.js

atviewer.js

445 ms

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479 ms

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509 ms

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488 ms

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744 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

718 ms

jquery.ui.menu.min.js

jquery.ui.menu.min.js

887 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

871 ms

jquery.ui.resizable.min.js

jquery.ui.resizable.min.js

905 ms

jquery.ui.draggable.min.js

jquery.ui.draggable.min.js

956 ms

jquery.ui.button.min.js

jquery.ui.button.min.js

901 ms

jquery.ui.dialog.min.js

jquery.ui.dialog.min.js

903 ms

events-manager.js

events-manager.js

982 ms

breakwaterbooks.js

breakwaterbooks.js

616 ms

zebra_tooltips.js

zebra_tooltips.js

914 ms

small-menu.js

small-menu.js

914 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

932 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

942 ms

jquery.placeholder.min.js

jquery.placeholder.min.js

943 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

929 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

943 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

1003 ms

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background.jpg

74 ms

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74 ms

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72 ms

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72 ms

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72 ms

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73 ms

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260 ms

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259 ms

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681 ms

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261 ms

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699 ms

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705 ms

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705 ms

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708 ms

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751 ms

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751 ms

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759 ms

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761 ms

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772 ms

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774 ms

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782 ms

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41 ms

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61 ms

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31 ms

Accessibility Review

breakwaterbooks.com accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

breakwaterbooks.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

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

breakwaterbooks.com SEO score

68

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

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 Breakwaterbooks.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 Breakwaterbooks.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

breakwaterbooks.com

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