Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

laurenceking.com

Welcome to Laurence King Publishing - Laurence King | Laurence King Publishing UK

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laurenceking.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laurenceking.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,010 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.laurenceking.com

165 ms

preloads.js

53 ms

load_feature-9f951eb7d8d53973c719de211f807d63af81c644e5b9a6ae72661ac408d472f6.js

37 ms

storefront-80e528be853eac23af2454534897ca9536b1d3d04aa043b042f34879a3c111c8.js

58 ms

features-1c0b396bd4d054b94abae1eb6a1bd6ba47beb35525c57a217c77a862ff06d83f.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Laurenceking.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cmp.osano.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.osano.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Laurenceking.com main page is 2.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 189.1 kB

  • Original 236.6 kB
  • After minification 224.5 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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 189.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Laurence King images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 176 B

  • Original 114.7 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 114.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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. Laurenceking.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (62%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laurence King. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

laurenceking.com accessibility score

98

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.

SEO Factors

laurenceking.com 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 Laurenceking.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 Laurenceking.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 Laurence King. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: