Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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paperbackswap.com

Trade Used Books with PaperBack Swap (the world's largest Book Club)

Page Load Speed

54.4 sec in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

46.8 sec

Page Rendered

7.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paperbackswap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 54.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paperbackswap.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

paperbackswap.com

204 ms

www.paperbackswap.com

73 ms

index.php

331 ms

global.css

245 ms

global.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Paperbackswap.com, 19% (23 requests) were made to Images.paperbackswap.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) relates to the external source Tpc.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Paperbackswap.com 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 160.7 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 134.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 137.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 869.3 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. Obviously, Paper Back Swap needs image optimization as it can save up to 137.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 786.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 437.7 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 786.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 408.1 kB

  • Original 489.3 kB
  • After minification 446.0 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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. Paperbackswap.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 408.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (45%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paper Back Swap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

paperbackswap.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Paperbackswap.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 Paperbackswap.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Paper Back Swap. 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: