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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

sparknotes.com

SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides

Page Load Speed

42 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

34.2 sec

Page Rendered

7.7 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Spark Notes content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sparknotes.com

SparkNotes are the most helpful study guides around to literature, math, science, and more. Find sample tests, essay help, and translations of Shakespeare.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sparknotes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 41.9 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

sparknotes.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sparknotes.com

112 ms

www.sparknotes.com

304 ms

v3.0.104159.js

366 ms

currency.js

557 ms

v4.1.header.min.js

367 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Sparknotes.com, 26% (34 requests) were made to Img.sparknotes.com and 20% (27 requests) were made to A.tribalfusion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sparknotes.com main page is 3.7 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 51.1 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 6.9 kB, which is 14% 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 39.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 78.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Spark Notes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 536.1 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 1.0 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 394.4 kB

  • Original 479.0 kB
  • After minification 430.0 kB
  • After compression 84.6 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. Sparknotes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 394.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (49%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spark Notes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sparknotes.com

sparknotes.com

112 ms

www.sparknotes.com

www.sparknotes.com

304 ms

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366 ms

currency.js

currency.js

557 ms

v4.1.header.min.js

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367 ms

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346 ms

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Accessibility Review

sparknotes.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

sparknotes.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

sparknotes.com SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

sparknotes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Spark Notes. 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: