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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

macmillanthesaurus.com

Welcome to Macmillan Education Customer Support

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

683 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macmillanthesaurus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 683 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macmillanthesaurus.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

683 ms

stub.js

93 ms

3_3_3.Finalorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript

185 ms

SfdcCore.js

362 ms

jQuery311

424 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Macmillanthesaurus.com, 21% (10 requests) were made to Macmillaneducationcovers.com and 17% (8 requests) were made to C.gbr120.content.sfdc-5pakla.force.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Macmillaneducationcovers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (9%)

Content Size

12.8 MB

After Optimization

11.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Macmillanthesaurus.com main page is 12.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.2 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 48.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 12.3 MB
  • After minification 11.3 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. Macmillan Thesaurus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 78.3 kB

  • Original 324.8 kB
  • After minification 324.8 kB
  • After compression 246.5 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 78.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 396 B

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. Macmillanthesaurus.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Macmillan Thesaurus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

683 ms

stub.js

stub.js

93 ms

3_3_3.Finalorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript

3_3_3.Finalorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript

185 ms

SfdcCore.js

SfdcCore.js

362 ms

jQuery311

jQuery311

424 ms

picklist4.js

picklist4.js

325 ms

VFState.js

VFState.js

325 ms

styles.css

styles.css

408 ms

ELTCSSOverride

ELTCSSOverride

355 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

18 ms

NetworkTracking.js

NetworkTracking.js

416 ms

consent-bundle-93-4.js

consent-bundle-93-4.js

21 ms

modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js

419 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

25 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

512 ms

jquery.easydropdown.js

jquery.easydropdown.js

511 ms

jquery.screwdefaultbuttonsV2.js

jquery.screwdefaultbuttonsV2.js

509 ms

general.js

general.js

522 ms

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csm_HC2E_SB1_cover-1_b2ed908c00.jpg

400 ms

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9781035100033.jpg

2046 ms

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9781380056191.jpg

2329 ms

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9781035120109.jpg

1556 ms

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9781380052285.jpg

1157 ms

logo.png

logo.png

101 ms

advancing-learning.png

advancing-learning.png

100 ms

MuseoSans_500-webfont.woff

MuseoSans_500-webfont.woff

170 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

690 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

537 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

784 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

795 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

423 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

356 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

971 ms

servlet.ImageServer

servlet.ImageServer

1173 ms

MuseoSans_300-webfont.woff

MuseoSans_300-webfont.woff

95 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

258 ms

MuseoSans_700-webfont.woff

MuseoSans_700-webfont.woff

102 ms

9781380032089.jpg

9781380032089.jpg

1177 ms

9781786328571.jpg

9781786328571.jpg

377 ms

9781380042699.jpg

9781380042699.jpg

1247 ms

9780230458826.jpg

9780230458826.jpg

390 ms

9781380068798.jpg

9781380068798.jpg

909 ms

9781035123063.jpg

9781035123063.jpg

1087 ms

session

session

320 ms

session

session

348 ms

session

session

356 ms

session

session

341 ms

session

session

329 ms

Accessibility Review

macmillanthesaurus.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

macmillanthesaurus.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

macmillanthesaurus.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Macmillanthesaurus.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 Macmillanthesaurus.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

macmillanthesaurus.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Macmillan Thesaurus. 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: