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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

comparebookprices.co.uk

Compare Book Prices, Buy Book, Cheapest Books, Cheap Books

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comparebookprices.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comparebookprices.co.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comparebookprices.co.uk

214 ms

www.comparebookprices.co.uk

232 ms

javascript.js

79 ms

jsWebRequest.js

156 ms

Style.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Comparebookprices.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Comparebookprices.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

106.8 kB

After Optimization

65.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comparebookprices.co.uk main page is 106.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 43.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 6.7 kB, which is 15% 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 36.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 42.7 kB
  • After minification 39.7 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. Compare Book Prices images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 678 B

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 401 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 706 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. Comparebookprices.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 401 B or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (32%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Book Prices. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

comparebookprices.co.uk

comparebookprices.co.uk

214 ms

www.comparebookprices.co.uk

www.comparebookprices.co.uk

232 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

79 ms

jsWebRequest.js

jsWebRequest.js

156 ms

Style.css

Style.css

162 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

18 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

78 ms

browsetitle.gif

browsetitle.gif

86 ms

browseauthor.gif

browseauthor.gif

83 ms

home.gif

home.gif

155 ms

about.gif

about.gif

156 ms

contact.gif

contact.gif

155 ms

reviews.gif

reviews.gif

166 ms

girl.jpg

girl.jpg

171 ms

barleft.gif

barleft.gif

168 ms

barright.jpg

barright.jpg

238 ms

find_books1.jpg

find_books1.jpg

239 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

239 ms

girl3.gif

girl3.gif

251 ms

searchbutton.gif

searchbutton.gif

253 ms

leftbottom.gif

leftbottom.gif

255 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

11 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

barstrip.jpg

barstrip.jpg

299 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

300 ms

leftstrip.gif

leftstrip.gif

302 ms

findbg1.jpg

findbg1.jpg

313 ms

top10strip.gif

top10strip.gif

317 ms

top10.gif

top10.gif

325 ms

sidebottom.JPG

sidebottom.JPG

380 ms

top10plain.gif

top10plain.gif

381 ms

leftbig.jpg

leftbig.jpg

380 ms

vertstripbig.jpg

vertstripbig.jpg

393 ms

Blackwell.gif

Blackwell.gif

405 ms

amazonUK.gif

amazonUK.gif

411 ms

waterstones.JPG

waterstones.JPG

462 ms

BooksETC.jpg

BooksETC.jpg

463 ms

hive.png

hive.png

464 ms

foyles.jpg

foyles.jpg

471 ms

bookdepository.png

bookdepository.png

485 ms

wordery.gif

wordery.gif

493 ms

rightbig.jpg

rightbig.jpg

539 ms

left.jpg

left.jpg

540 ms

vertstrip.jpg

vertstrip.jpg

539 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

right.jpg

right.jpg

490 ms

bestsellerstrip.gif

bestsellerstrip.gif

501 ms

bestsellersbg.gif

bestsellersbg.gif

513 ms

Accessibility Review

comparebookprices.co.uk accessibility score

44

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

comparebookprices.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

comparebookprices.co.uk SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

comparebookprices.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Compare Book Prices. 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: