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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thriftbooks.ca

New & Used Books | Buy Cheap Books Online at ThriftBooks

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Thrift Books content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thriftbooks.ca

Over 13 million titles available from the largest seller of used books. Cheap prices on high quality gently used books. Free shipping over $15.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thriftbooks.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thriftbooks.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thriftbooks.ca

136 ms

www.thriftbooks.com

238 ms

gtm.js

215 ms

ld.js

552 ms

events.js

350 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thriftbooks.ca, 22% (22 requests) were made to Static.thriftbooks.com and 14% (14 requests) were made to Img.thriftbooks.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source R.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

888.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thriftbooks.ca main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 722.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 418.4 kB

  • Original 521.4 kB
  • After minification 508.1 kB
  • After compression 103.0 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 418.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 722.4 kB
  • After minification 666.0 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. Thrift Books images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 96.5 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 91 B

  • Original 29.6 kB
  • After minification 29.6 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Thriftbooks.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (47%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thrift 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thriftbooks.ca

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Accessibility Review

thriftbooks.ca accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

thriftbooks.ca best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thriftbooks.ca SEO score

100

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

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 Thriftbooks.ca 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 Thriftbooks.ca 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

thriftbooks.ca

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