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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

macmillanhighered.com

Macmillan Learning US | Digital Learning Tools & Classroom Solutions

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

90 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macmillanhighered.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 1.1 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

macmillanhighered.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macmillanhighered.com

10 ms

macmillanhighered.com

24 ms

macmillanlearning.com

6 ms

www.macmillanlearning.com

16 ms

us

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Macmillanhighered.com, 36% (24 requests) were made to Macmillanlearning.com and 28% (19 requests) were made to Prod-cat-files.macmillan.cloud. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (678 ms) relates to the external source Prod-cat-files.macmillan.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Macmillanhighered.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 40.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 35.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Macmillan Highered images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. Macmillanhighered.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (56%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Macmillan Highered. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

macmillanhighered.com

macmillanhighered.com

10 ms

macmillanhighered.com

macmillanhighered.com

24 ms

macmillanlearning.com

macmillanlearning.com

6 ms

www.macmillanlearning.com

www.macmillanlearning.com

16 ms

us

us

3 ms

us

us

49 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

79 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

99 ms

css

css

62 ms

alpha_responsive.css

alpha_responsive.css

94 ms

addons_responsive.css

addons_responsive.css

46 ms

instructorcatalog.css

instructorcatalog.css

63 ms

css

css

88 ms

css

css

89 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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67 ms

analyticsmediator.js

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52 ms

storylane.js

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55 ms

generatedVariables.js

generatedVariables.js

61 ms

all_responsive.js

all_responsive.js

317 ms

addons_responsive.js

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58 ms

jquery.simplePagination.js

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52 ms

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56 ms

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64 ms

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81 ms

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79 ms

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216 ms

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202 ms

header-logo.svg

header-logo.svg

143 ms

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146 ms

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156 ms

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search.svg

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Accessibility Review

macmillanhighered.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

macmillanhighered.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

macmillanhighered.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Macmillanhighered.com 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 Macmillanhighered.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

macmillanhighered.com

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