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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

booksasia.co.uk

Books Asia - Foreign Language Books for Public Libraries

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Visit booksasia.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Books Asia content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about booksasia.co.uk

Supplying foreign-language books to Libraries world-wide since 1985. We are the UK's largest supplier, with an in-depth knowledge of the Library Sector. Books Asia is the only foreign-languages suppli...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Booksasia.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 6.1 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

booksasia.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,600 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

booksasia.co.uk

242 ms

booksasia.co.uk

435 ms

js

127 ms

css

351 ms

bootstrap.css

469 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Booksasia.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Booksasia.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 893.4 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

580.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Booksasia.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 647.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.3 kB, which is 22% 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 23.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 377.0 kB
  • After minification 345.8 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. Books Asia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 476.4 kB

  • Original 647.7 kB
  • After minification 572.7 kB
  • After compression 171.3 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 476.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 362.4 kB

  • Original 419.7 kB
  • After minification 335.2 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. Booksasia.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 362.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (75%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books Asia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

booksasia.co.uk

booksasia.co.uk

242 ms

booksasia.co.uk

booksasia.co.uk

435 ms

js

js

127 ms

css

css

351 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

469 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

560 ms

theme.css

theme.css

647 ms

theme-elements.css

theme-elements.css

631 ms

theme-blog.css

theme-blog.css

454 ms

theme-shop.css

theme-shop.css

518 ms

theme-animate.css

theme-animate.css

694 ms

settings.css

settings.css

609 ms

component.css

component.css

566 ms

default.css

default.css

712 ms

custom.css

custom.css

713 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

747 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1526 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

871 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

870 ms

jquery-cookie.js

jquery-cookie.js

1521 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1552 ms

common.js

common.js

1527 ms

jquery.validation.js

jquery.validation.js

1534 ms

jquery.stellar.js

jquery.stellar.js

1538 ms

jquery.easy-pie-chart.js

jquery.easy-pie-chart.js

1538 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

1545 ms

theme.js

theme.js

1547 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

1553 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

1558 ms

jquery.flipshow.js

jquery.flipshow.js

1546 ms

view.home.js

view.home.js

1561 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1560 ms

theme.init.js

theme.init.js

1565 ms

Logo2015_Colour_LibraryServices.png

Logo2015_Colour_LibraryServices.png

748 ms

ga-slide-bg3.jpg

ga-slide-bg3.jpg

755 ms

ga-slide-bg6.jpg

ga-slide-bg6.jpg

753 ms

ga-slide-bg8.jpg

ga-slide-bg8.jpg

758 ms

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1497 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

864 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1218 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

891 ms

timer.png

timer.png

890 ms

large_left.png

large_left.png

888 ms

large_right.png

large_right.png

886 ms

Accessibility Review

booksasia.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

booksasia.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

booksasia.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Booksasia.co.uk 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 Booksasia.co.uk 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

booksasia.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Books Asia. 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: