Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

librarything.de

LibraryThing | Katalogisiere deine Bücher online | LibraryThing auf Deutsch

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

librarything.de screenshot

About Website

Welcome to librarything.de homepage info - get ready to check Library Thing best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about librarything.de

LibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Librarything.de page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

librarything.de performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

librarything.de

35 ms

www.librarything.de

388 ms

3128d7b0a1526edcb6cad8501844f8e0.css

151 ms

translated_rules.php

67 ms

jquery.min.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Librarything.de, 58% (39 requests) were made to Pics.cdn.librarything.com and 16% (11 requests) were made to Librarything.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (629 ms) relates to the external source Static.librarything.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

333.5 kB

After Optimization

177.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Librarything.de main page is 333.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 129.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 28.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 129.7 kB
  • After minification 119.0 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. Library Thing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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 31.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 84.7 kB

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Librarything.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (51%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Library Thing. 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.

Accessibility Review

librarything.de accessibility score

56

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

librarything.de 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

librarything.de SEO score

64

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

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Librarything.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German 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 Librarything.de 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 Library Thing. 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: