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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

reviews.waterstones.com

Buy books, stationery and gifts, online and in store | Waterstones

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

830 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reviews.waterstones.com page load time and found that the first response time was 830 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reviews.waterstones.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.waterstones.com

830 ms

bundle.css

220 ms

bundle.js

277 ms

ecommerce.js

161 ms

00077990-640x382.jpeg

543 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Reviews.waterstones.com, 17% (15 requests) were made to A61a085359000702575d-1091780f292ed74c8a63cc6ff151398e.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com and 17% (15 requests) were made to 03fcd67fd51850d3ba6b-6cb392df11a341bce8c76b1898d0c030.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source A61a085359000702575d-1091780f292ed74c8a63cc6ff151398e.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Reviews.waterstones.com main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 364.2 kB

  • Original 385.0 kB
  • After minification 139.0 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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 246.0 kB, which is 64% 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 364.2 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Reviews Waterstones images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 624.4 kB

  • Original 894.7 kB
  • After minification 894.1 kB
  • After compression 270.3 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 624.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 256.5 kB

  • Original 338.7 kB
  • After minification 338.2 kB
  • After compression 82.2 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. Reviews.waterstones.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (26%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reviews Waterstones. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.waterstones.com

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830 ms

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220 ms

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277 ms

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990 ms

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980 ms

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334 ms

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319 ms

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322 ms

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497 ms

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746 ms

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746 ms

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923 ms

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924 ms

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924 ms

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696 ms

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717 ms

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647 ms

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644 ms

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716 ms

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714 ms

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621 ms

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449 ms

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532 ms

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613 ms

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66 ms

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581 ms

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372 ms

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376 ms

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73 ms

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385 ms

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141 ms

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119 ms

Accessibility Review

reviews.waterstones.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

reviews.waterstones.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

reviews.waterstones.com SEO score

84

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Reviews.waterstones.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 Reviews.waterstones.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

reviews.waterstones.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Reviews Waterstones. 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: