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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

dedalusbooks.com

Home :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

Welcome to dedalusbooks.com homepage info - get ready to check Dedalus Books best content right away, or after learning these important things about dedalusbooks.com

Dedalus is an alternative, independent publisher, founded in England in 1983. The films on our page are all related to the books we publish. Our list includes contemporary English language fiction, tr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dedalusbooks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dedalusbooks.com performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dedalusbooks.com

212 ms

www.dedalusbooks.com

253 ms

common.css

88 ms

layout.css

164 ms

splash.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Dedalusbooks.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Dedalusbooks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

617.1 kB

After Optimization

576.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dedalusbooks.com main page is 617.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 528.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 20.4 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. 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 14.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 528.1 kB
  • After minification 509.2 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. Dedalus Books images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 742 B

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Dedalusbooks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 742 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (12%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dedalus Books. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dedalusbooks.com

dedalusbooks.com

212 ms

www.dedalusbooks.com

www.dedalusbooks.com

253 ms

common.css

common.css

88 ms

layout.css

layout.css

164 ms

splash.css

splash.css

166 ms

browchk.js

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165 ms

boxmodelfix.js

boxmodelfix.js

167 ms

imageflow.js

imageflow.js

175 ms

setStyle.js

setStyle.js

177 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

328 ms

ga.js

ga.js

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

dedalus-logo.png

dedalus-logo.png

89 ms

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166 ms

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85 ms

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328 ms

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341 ms

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twitter.png

342 ms

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402 ms

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403 ms

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413 ms

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414 ms

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438 ms

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521 ms

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487 ms

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503 ms

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527 ms

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570 ms

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568 ms

Accessibility Review

dedalusbooks.com accessibility score

64

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

dedalusbooks.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dedalusbooks.com SEO score

69

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

Document uses plugins

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 Dedalusbooks.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 Dedalusbooks.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

dedalusbooks.com

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