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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

read.amazon.com

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Page Load Speed

375 ms in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

219 ms

Page Rendered

140 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Read.amazon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 359 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

read.amazon.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

read.amazon.com

16 ms

read.amazon.com

85 ms

LandingPage-20141010.css

21 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

29 ms

unsupported.min.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Read.amazon.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (85 ms) belongs to the original domain Read.amazon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

303.5 kB

After Optimization

223.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Read.amazon.com main page is 303.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 185.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 5.4 kB, which is 41% 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 10.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 375 B

  • Original 185.1 kB
  • After minification 184.8 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. Read Amazon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 101.5 kB
  • After minification 101.5 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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 66.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 885 B

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. Read.amazon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Read Amazon. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

read.amazon.com

read.amazon.com

16 ms

read.amazon.com

read.amazon.com

85 ms

LandingPage-20141010.css

LandingPage-20141010.css

21 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

29 ms

unsupported.min.js

unsupported.min.js

20 ms

uploadMetrics

uploadMetrics

35 ms

browser-library-bg.png

browser-library-bg.png

22 ms

kcr-logo.png

kcr-logo.png

17 ms

apple-icon.png

apple-icon.png

16 ms

android-icon.png

android-icon.png

22 ms

win8-icon.png

win8-icon.png

19 ms

amazon-icon.png

amazon-icon.png

19 ms

kcr-chrome-logo.png

kcr-chrome-logo.png

35 ms

kcr-download-button-bg-large.png

kcr-download-button-bg-large.png

34 ms

kcr-safari-logo.png

kcr-safari-logo.png

37 ms

kcr-firefox-logo.png

kcr-firefox-logo.png

35 ms

kcr-ie-logo.png

kcr-ie-logo.png

38 ms

Accessibility Review

read.amazon.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

read.amazon.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

read.amazon.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Read.amazon.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 Read.amazon.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

read.amazon.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Read Amazon. 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: