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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

cooksrecipes.com

CooksRecipes.com - Official Site

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cooks Recipes content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cooksrecipes.com

Online since 1999, CooksRecipes is a pioneer Internet recipe resource with over 23,000 recipes for every meal course and occasion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cooksrecipes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cooksrecipes.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cooksrecipes.com

1090 ms

cooksrecipes.com

1141 ms

styles_hp.css

25 ms

js

61 ms

buttons.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Cooksrecipes.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cooksrecipes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

805.3 kB

After Optimization

706.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cooksrecipes.com main page is 805.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 558.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 26.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 166.1 kB
  • After minification 166.0 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. Cooks Recipes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 558.6 kB
  • After minification 558.6 kB
  • After compression 522.4 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Cooksrecipes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (31%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cooks Recipes. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cooksrecipes.com

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1090 ms

cooksrecipes.com

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1141 ms

styles_hp.css

styles_hp.css

25 ms

js

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61 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

33 ms

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85 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

115 ms

brand

brand

25 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

23 ms

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49 ms

cse.js

cse.js

67 ms

follow-us-pin.jpg

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67 ms

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77 ms

facebook_subscribe.jpg

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159 ms

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205 ms

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italian_beef_and_cheese_calzone.jpg

304 ms

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307 ms

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348 ms

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368 ms

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454 ms

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454 ms

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477 ms

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491 ms

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523 ms

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549 ms

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577 ms

easy_ground_beef_stroganoff.jpg

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601 ms

js

js

145 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

141 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

90 ms

default+en.css

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91 ms

default.css

default.css

90 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

281 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

21 ms

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branding.png

18 ms

clear.png

clear.png

100 ms

collect

collect

39 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

31 ms

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ads

113 ms

ads

ads

483 ms

ads

ads

484 ms

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54 ms

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46 ms

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38 ms

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13 ms

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45 ms

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qs_click_protection.js

45 ms

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13 ms

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221 ms

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14 ms

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208 ms

activeview

activeview

122 ms

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activeview

61 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

cooksrecipes.com accessibility score

87

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Best Practices

cooksrecipes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cooksrecipes.com SEO score

67

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

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 Cooksrecipes.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 Cooksrecipes.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

cooksrecipes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cooks Recipes. 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: