Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

hincebooks.com.au

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

744 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

hincebooks.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to hincebooks.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Hince Books best content right away, or after learning these important things about hincebooks.com.au

Kenneth Hince Books, suppliers of secondhand, old, rare and fine books, Melbourne, Australia, used, out of print, rare and antiquarian books, first editions, private press, fine bindings

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hincebooks.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 744 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hincebooks.com.au performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hincebooks.com.au

744 ms

hincebooks.css

227 ms

hince.js

440 ms

style.css

441 ms

jquery.js

676 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hincebooks.com.au and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Hincebooks.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

733.4 kB

After Optimization

699.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Hincebooks.com.au main page is 733.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 677.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 8.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 677.9 kB
  • After minification 654.0 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. Hince Books images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 448 B

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 581 B

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Hincebooks.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 581 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (10%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hince 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hincebooks.com.au accessibility score

76

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

hincebooks.com.au 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

SEO Factors

hincebooks.com.au SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hincebooks.com.au 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 Hincebooks.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hince 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: