Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

paperchainbookstore.com.au

paperchain bookstore canberra the original independent bookstore est 1982

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

588 ms

paperchainbookstore.com.au screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Paperchain Bookstore content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about paperchainbookstore.com.au

Paperchain - Canberra's leading independent bookstore - the original Paperchain at Manuka - is now online with low delivery costs and secure online purchase. Access to over 2 million titles - 12,000 i...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paperchainbookstore.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paperchainbookstore.com.au performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,960 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.211

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paperchainbookstore.com.au

480 ms

home.do;jsessionid=76D94C28C0D4BF7EA197CA5E680A81B4

537 ms

pagination.css

425 ms

chosen.css

638 ms

style.css

641 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Paperchainbookstore.com.au, 3% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Paperchainbookstore.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (22%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Paperchainbookstore.com.au main page is 4.8 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 100.0 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.5 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 100.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 905.1 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Obviously, Paperchain Bookstore needs image optimization as it can save up to 905.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 296.7 kB
  • After minification 296.4 kB
  • After compression 276.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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. Paperchainbookstore.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (45%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paperchain Bookstore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paperchainbookstore.com.au 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 are not valid or misspelled

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

paperchainbookstore.com.au best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

paperchainbookstore.com.au SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Paperchainbookstore.com.au 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 Paperchainbookstore.com.au 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 Paperchain Bookstore. 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: