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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kirkusreviews.com

Kirkus Reviews

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

957 ms

Page Rendered

866 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kirkusreviews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kirkusreviews.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

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score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Kirkusreviews.com, 43% (45 requests) were made to D1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net and 36% (38 requests) were made to D1fd687oe6a92y.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) relates to the external source D1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kirkusreviews.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 180.9 kB

  • Original 206.5 kB
  • After minification 149.2 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 57.3 kB, which is 28% 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 180.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

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  • After minification 552.0 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. Kirkus Reviews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 710.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 336.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 710.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 669.2 kB

  • Original 786.5 kB
  • After minification 786.5 kB
  • After compression 117.3 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. Kirkusreviews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 669.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (25%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kirkus Reviews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

kirkusreviews.com accessibility score

91

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

Best Practices

kirkusreviews.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

kirkusreviews.com SEO score

83

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

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 Kirkusreviews.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 Kirkusreviews.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

kirkusreviews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kirkus Reviews. 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: