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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

books.kpl.org

Kitchener and Waterloo Public Libraries Catalogue

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

874 ms

Page Rendered

91 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Books.kpl.org page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 965 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

books.kpl.org performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

books.kpl.org

218 ms

ProStyles.css

30 ms

elcontent.js

356 ms

common.js

586 ms

mainmenu.css

566 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Books.kpl.org, 22% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) belongs to the original domain Books.kpl.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 944 B (5%)

Content Size

18.9 kB

After Optimization

18.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Books.kpl.org main page is 18.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 17.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 910 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 824 B

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 910 B or 52% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Books Kpl. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

books.kpl.org

books.kpl.org

218 ms

ProStyles.css

ProStyles.css

30 ms

elcontent.js

elcontent.js

356 ms

common.js

common.js

586 ms

mainmenu.css

mainmenu.css

566 ms

ga.js

ga.js

25 ms

kpl_logo.png

kpl_logo.png

54 ms

w-logo-137x60.gif

w-logo-137x60.gif

40 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

24 ms

Accessibility Review

books.kpl.org accessibility score

65

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

books.kpl.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

books.kpl.org SEO score

81

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Books.kpl.org 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 Books.kpl.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

books.kpl.org

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