Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

faber.co.uk

Faber | Discover the world's best books | Shop, Authors, Journal

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

faber.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit faber.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Faber content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about faber.co.uk

Founded in 1929, Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses. In every generation, Faber has sought to find the very best writers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Faber.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

faber.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

faber.co.uk

1048 ms

www.faber.co.uk

1501 ms

faber,_default,_css,_styles.css+base,_default,_css,_widgets.css+faber,_default,_css,_magnific-popup.css+faber,_default,_css,_faber_members.css+faber,_default,_css,_normalise.css+faber,_default,_css,_faber.css.pagespeed.cc.SzIj_T3esZ.css

272 ms

Swiss721.css+responsive.css+jquery.sidr.light.css.pagespeed.cc.hOcYwtzopC.css

182 ms

carousel.css

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Faber.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Faber.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 756.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Faber.co.uk main page is 2.9 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 68.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 51.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Faber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 476.9 kB

  • Original 657.3 kB
  • After minification 614.6 kB
  • After compression 180.4 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 476.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 195.1 kB

  • Original 229.0 kB
  • After minification 181.0 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. Faber.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Faber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

faber.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

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

faber.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

faber.co.uk SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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