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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

readerscircle.org

Reader's Circle: Local Listings for Book Clubs and Author Events in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, San Fr...

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit readerscircle.org now to see the best up-to-date Reader S Circle content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about readerscircle.org

Book club networking site serving the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with listings for local groups, author events, & phone chats.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readerscircle.org page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

readerscircle.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

readerscircle.org

154 ms

readerscircle.org

272 ms

www.readerscircle.org

142 ms

www.readerscircle.org

415 ms

reset.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Readerscircle.org, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) belongs to the original domain Readerscircle.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Readerscircle.org main page is 7.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 17.0 kB, which is 19% 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 72.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Reader S Circle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 359.8 kB
  • After minification 359.8 kB
  • After compression 216.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 143.8 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. Readerscircle.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (35%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reader S Circle. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

readerscircle.org

readerscircle.org

154 ms

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readerscircle.org

272 ms

www.readerscircle.org

www.readerscircle.org

142 ms

www.readerscircle.org

www.readerscircle.org

415 ms

reset.css

reset.css

68 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

129 ms

default.css

default.css

128 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

126 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

129 ms

custom.js

custom.js

134 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

132 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

188 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

189 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.js

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.js

190 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

191 ms

jquery.easing.compatibility.js

jquery.easing.compatibility.js

199 ms

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

198 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

308 ms

wachevents.calendar.js

wachevents.calendar.js

260 ms

jquery-ui-i18n.js

jquery-ui-i18n.js

260 ms

lib.js

lib.js

260 ms

tiny_mce.js

tiny_mce.js

236 ms

reset.css

reset.css

87 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

98 ms

default.css

default.css

138 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

185 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

200 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

197 ms

custom.js

custom.js

193 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

143 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

143 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.js

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.js

321 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

202 ms

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

195 ms

jquery.easing.compatibility.js

jquery.easing.compatibility.js

195 ms

wachevents.calendar.js

wachevents.calendar.js

136 ms

jquery-ui-i18n.js

jquery-ui-i18n.js

214 ms

lib.js

lib.js

197 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

196 ms

tiny_mce.js

tiny_mce.js

325 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

168 ms

readers-circle-logo.png

readers-circle-logo.png

76 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

74 ms

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75 ms

donate-icon.png

donate-icon.png

75 ms

Readers-Circle-2012-header.png

Readers-Circle-2012-header.png

76 ms

go.gif

go.gif

73 ms

drum-mountain.jpg

drum-mountain.jpg

128 ms

classroom.jpg

classroom.jpg

128 ms

facts.jpg

facts.jpg

129 ms

denizens.jpg

denizens.jpg

129 ms

wages-of-empire.jpg

wages-of-empire.jpg

133 ms

traumergy.jpg

traumergy.jpg

134 ms

sweetie.jpg

sweetie.jpg

192 ms

palm-reader.jpg

palm-reader.jpg

191 ms

politzer.jpg

politzer.jpg

192 ms

broken-water.jpg

broken-water.jpg

191 ms

crossing-paths.jpg

crossing-paths.jpg

198 ms

breathe.jpg

breathe.jpg

200 ms

marrow.jpg

marrow.jpg

255 ms

days.jpg

days.jpg

256 ms

divorce.jpg

divorce.jpg

254 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

255 ms

awakening.jpg

awakening.jpg

263 ms

honor.jpg

honor.jpg

271 ms

translucent.jpg

translucent.jpg

318 ms

holy-ghost.jpg

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319 ms

like-printing-money.jpg

like-printing-money.jpg

319 ms

bones.jpg

bones.jpg

317 ms

beyond-the-sea.jpg

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328 ms

feelin-it.jpg

feelin-it.jpg

338 ms

reason.jpg

reason.jpg

379 ms

uncertain.jpg

uncertain.jpg

389 ms

observer.jpg

observer.jpg

387 ms

disciples-wife.jpg

disciples-wife.jpg

388 ms

understandable-economics.jpg

understandable-economics.jpg

386 ms

wedding.jpg

wedding.jpg

336 ms

go.gif

go.gif

65 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

66 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

67 ms

donate-icon.png

donate-icon.png

67 ms

readers-circle-logo.png

readers-circle-logo.png

64 ms

Readers-Circle-2012-header.png

Readers-Circle-2012-header.png

506 ms

ga.js

ga.js

21 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

drum-mountain.jpg

drum-mountain.jpg

140 ms

classroom.jpg

classroom.jpg

141 ms

facts.jpg

facts.jpg

78 ms

denizens.jpg

denizens.jpg

267 ms

wages-of-empire.jpg

wages-of-empire.jpg

266 ms

traumergy.jpg

traumergy.jpg

266 ms

getEventsHomeList.php

getEventsHomeList.php

246 ms

en.js

en.js

309 ms

editor_template.js

editor_template.js

309 ms

editor_plugin.js

editor_plugin.js

310 ms

loading.png

loading.png

198 ms

palm-reader.jpg

palm-reader.jpg

341 ms

sweetie.jpg

sweetie.jpg

322 ms

broken-water.jpg

broken-water.jpg

272 ms

politzer.jpg

politzer.jpg

274 ms

crossing-paths.jpg

crossing-paths.jpg

394 ms

breathe.jpg

breathe.jpg

333 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

327 ms

divorce.jpg

divorce.jpg

324 ms

marrow.jpg

marrow.jpg

468 ms

days.jpg

days.jpg

405 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

411 ms

awakening.jpg

awakening.jpg

382 ms

border.png

border.png

379 ms

controls.png

controls.png

390 ms

honor.jpg

honor.jpg

830 ms

translucent.jpg

translucent.jpg

408 ms

bones.jpg

bones.jpg

545 ms

holy-ghost.jpg

holy-ghost.jpg

415 ms

like-printing-money.jpg

like-printing-money.jpg

420 ms

beyond-the-sea.jpg

beyond-the-sea.jpg

523 ms

feelin-it.jpg

feelin-it.jpg

451 ms

reason.jpg

reason.jpg

420 ms

observer.jpg

observer.jpg

419 ms

disciples-wife.jpg

disciples-wife.jpg

466 ms

uncertain.jpg

uncertain.jpg

484 ms

BEBAS___-webfont.woff

BEBAS___-webfont.woff

487 ms

understandable-economics.jpg

understandable-economics.jpg

585 ms

wedding.jpg

wedding.jpg

519 ms

en.js

en.js

485 ms

editor_template.js

editor_template.js

495 ms

editor_plugin.js

editor_plugin.js

496 ms

en.js

en.js

67 ms

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en.js

66 ms

ui.css

ui.css

67 ms

content.css

content.css

64 ms

ui.css

ui.css

67 ms

Accessibility Review

readerscircle.org accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

Best Practices

readerscircle.org best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

readerscircle.org SEO score

69

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Readerscircle.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 Readerscircle.org 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

readerscircle.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Reader S Circle. 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: