Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

503 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readingtheplay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec 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

readingtheplay.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

readingtheplay.com

1526 ms

www.readingtheplay.com

905 ms

fbevents.js

141 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

294 ms

formidablepro.css

400 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Readingtheplay.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Readingtheplay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 642.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

908.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Readingtheplay.com main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 755.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 13.6 kB, which is 24% 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 48.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 755.5 kB
  • After minification 735.7 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. Readingtheplay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 286.5 kB

  • Original 402.8 kB
  • After minification 353.6 kB
  • After compression 116.2 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 286.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 287.7 kB

  • Original 335.9 kB
  • After minification 287.9 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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. Readingtheplay.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (64%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Readingtheplay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

readingtheplay.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

readingtheplay.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

readingtheplay.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Readingtheplay.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 Readingtheplay.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Readingtheplay. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: