Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

reco.com

Indigo - Chapters - Coles | Canada's Biggest Bookstore

Page Load Speed

21.4 sec in total

First Response

322 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

913 ms

reco.com screenshot

About Website

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

Shop the bestselling books, toys, fashion, home decor, stationery, electronics and so much more! Plus, free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 322 ms and then it took 21.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 20 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

reco.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,990 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

322 ms

31fb8e12b09ced9cf31673656f60ccd3ae553baf0fff9d

116 ms

main.js

218 ms

productDetailAnalytics.js

296 ms

searchAnalytics.js

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Reco.com, 28% (20 requests) were made to Dynamic.indigoimages.ca and 15% (11 requests) were made to Assets.indigoimages.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Dynamic.indigoimages.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Reco.com main page is 2.3 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 846.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 310.5 kB

  • Original 345.1 kB
  • After minification 344.8 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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. 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 310.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 846.9 kB
  • After minification 799.5 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. Reco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 208.6 kB

  • Original 535.4 kB
  • After minification 535.4 kB
  • After compression 326.8 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 208.6 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 474.7 kB

  • Original 553.7 kB
  • After minification 549.9 kB
  • After compression 79.0 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. Reco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 474.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (34%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

reco.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

reco.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

reco.com SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Reco.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 Reco.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 description is not detected on the main page of Reco. 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: