Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

textbooks.com

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Page Load Speed

20.7 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

13.5 sec

Page Rendered

6.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Textbooks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 20.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

textbooks.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

textbooks.com

273 ms

www.textbooks.com

638 ms

modcss.php

1221 ms

tb-v6_min.css

963 ms

tb-v5_min.css

939 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Textbooks.com, 20% (10 requests) were made to Src.textbooks.com and 18% (9 requests) were made to Siteimages.textbooks.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source D.impactradius-event.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

758.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Textbooks.com main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 42.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 283.8 kB
  • After minification 248.7 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. Obviously, Textbooks needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 891.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 438.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 891.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 293.3 kB

  • Original 354.2 kB
  • After minification 338.7 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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. Textbooks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (45%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Textbooks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

textbooks.com accessibility score

79

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

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

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

textbooks.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

textbooks.com SEO score

97

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Textbooks.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 Textbooks.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

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