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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cengagebrain.co.nz

Digital Learning & Online Textbooks – Cengage

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

Visit cengagebrain.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Cengage Brain content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cengagebrain.co.nz

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cengagebrain.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cengagebrain.co.nz performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,070 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cengagebrain.co.nz

85 ms

www.cengagebrain.co.nz

87 ms

index.html

77 ms

index.html

283 ms

index.html

349 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Cengagebrain.co.nz, 28% (23 requests) were made to Cengagebrain.com and 14% (11 requests) were made to Assets.cengagebrain.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (551 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (41%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cengagebrain.co.nz main page is 2.8 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 66.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Cengage Brain images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 648.4 kB

  • Original 929.4 kB
  • After minification 805.6 kB
  • After compression 281.0 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 648.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 381.4 kB

  • Original 437.3 kB
  • After minification 323.5 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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. Cengagebrain.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 381.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (58%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cengage Brain. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cengagebrain.co.nz

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85 ms

www.cengagebrain.co.nz

www.cengagebrain.co.nz

87 ms

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index.html

77 ms

index.html

index.html

283 ms

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index.html

349 ms

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55 ms

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83 ms

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57 ms

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studyToolsFinder.js

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39 ms

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133 ms

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111 ms

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27 ms

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235 ms

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110 ms

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Accessibility Review

cengagebrain.co.nz accessibility score

91

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cengagebrain.co.nz best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cengagebrain.co.nz SEO score

83

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

cengagebrain.co.nz

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cengage Brain. 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: