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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

centralsquarepress.com

Central Square Press | Poetry for the Broken Spaces

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

Visit centralsquarepress.com now to see the best up-to-date Central Square Press content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about centralsquarepress.com

Central Square Press is a small, independent, literary press that publishes thought-provoking and high quality poetry. Enzo Silon Surin, Publisher

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsquarepress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

centralsquarepress.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centralsquarepress.com

215 ms

style.css

72 ms

red-color.css

130 ms

css

16 ms

prettyPhoto.css

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Centralsquarepress.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (424 ms) belongs to the original domain Centralsquarepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 846.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsquarepress.com main page is 2.5 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 4.8 kB, which is 17% 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 23.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 794.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Central Square Press needs image optimization as it can save up to 794.4 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 115.7 kB
  • After minification 115.7 kB
  • After compression 91.0 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 24.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Centralsquarepress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central Square Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centralsquarepress.com

centralsquarepress.com

215 ms

style.css

style.css

72 ms

red-color.css

red-color.css

130 ms

css

css

16 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

131 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

132 ms

layer-slider.css

layer-slider.css

133 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

130 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

135 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

312 ms

flex-slider.min.js

flex-slider.min.js

197 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

196 ms

jquery.layerslider.js

jquery.layerslider.js

257 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

199 ms

map.min.js

map.min.js

202 ms

jquery.theme.plugins.min.js

jquery.theme.plugins.min.js

264 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

267 ms

flickr.js

flickr.js

265 ms

instagram.js

instagram.js

268 ms

jquery.twitter.js

jquery.twitter.js

333 ms

prettyPhoto.min.js

prettyPhoto.min.js

333 ms

fitVids.js

fitVids.js

337 ms

isotope.min.js

isotope.min.js

340 ms

custom.js

custom.js

336 ms

twitter.php

twitter.php

72 ms

skin.css

skin.css

68 ms

grid--background.png

grid--background.png

188 ms

logo.png

logo.png

189 ms

breathecover.png

breathecover.png

299 ms

emafcover.png

emafcover.png

240 ms

houscover.png

houscover.png

337 ms

undcover.png

undcover.png

310 ms

depcover.png

depcover.png

309 ms

lfccover.png

lfccover.png

309 ms

lorcover.png

lorcover.png

310 ms

fodcover.png

fodcover.png

424 ms

mtcover.png

mtcover.png

371 ms

cccover.png

cccover.png

374 ms

ahscover.png

ahscover.png

371 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

7 ms

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12 ms

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13 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVc.ttf

15 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

371 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

403 ms

slider-prev.png

slider-prev.png

252 ms

slider-next.png

slider-next.png

251 ms

Accessibility Review

centralsquarepress.com accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

centralsquarepress.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

centralsquarepress.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Centralsquarepress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Centralsquarepress.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

centralsquarepress.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Central Square Press. 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: