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Link structure
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Server
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External factors
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Media files
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Readings: Buy books online from Australia’s largest independent book store — Readings Books
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Server location: Canada
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Page structure

H1 heading
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Australia's favourite independent bookshop
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 90 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Australia's favourite independent bookshop
H2 Cart ()
H2 Sign in to Readings
H2 Sign up to Readings
H2 Re-send account confirmation
H2 Reset your password
H2 Reset your password Duplicate text
H2 Browse Readings
H2 Books
H2 Kids
H2 Gifts & stationery
H2 New releases
H2 Shop by category
H2 Winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award
H2 Pre-order now
H2 Events at Readings
H2 Arborescence by Rhett Davis
H2 The Readings blog
H2 Readings Monthly
H2 The Readings Podcast
H2 Visit your local Readings
H2 Looking for something in particular?
H3 Subscribe to the Readings e-news for the latest on books, culture and reviews (no spam, we promise)
H3 Foreword with Joe Rubbo
H3 The 2025 National Biography Award Winners
H3 What we’re reading: Murnane, Burr & Solnit
H3 The Great You & Me drawing competition
H3 August 2025
H3 Brandon Jack in conversation
H3 Sophie Quick in conversation
H3 Tania Davidge (Open House) in conversation
H4 Arborescence
H4 People with No Charisma
H4 U Want It Darker
H4 The Visitor
H4 Plastic Budgie
H4 The Ghost Walk
H4 What a Ripper!
H4 Family Food
H4 Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living
H4 Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies
H4 Conspiracy Nation
H4 Hawke PM: The Making of a Legend
H4 Ghost Cities
H4 Praiseworthy
H4 Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
H4 Bodies of Light
H4 The Labyrinth
H4 Extinctions
H4 Black Rock White City
H4 The Eye of the Sheep
H4 All the Birds, Singing
H4 Questions of Travel
H4 Truth
H4 The Time We Have Taken
H4 Linger
H4 The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial
H4 The Rot
H4 Pictures of You
H4 The Impossible Fortune (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 5)
H4 Discipline
H4 Tenderfoot
H4 Fireweather
H4 What We Can Know
H4 Seed
H4 How to End a Story
H4 Not Quite White in the Head
H4 Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere by Alexander Cothren
H4 The Leap by Paul Daley
H4 Plastic Budgie by Olivia De Zilva
H4 Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien
H6 Readings Recommends
H6 Subtotal (excludes shipping)
H6 Upcoming
H6 More Recent Reviews
H6 LATEST EDITION
H6 FEATURING
H6 ARCHIVE
H6 Recent Episodes
H6 Readings E-News
H6 Social Media
H6 Our Bookshops
H6 Explore
H6 Community
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H6 About this website
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Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an anchor text.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (34) on this page.

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/collections/the-bad-guys-seriesThe Bad Guys series
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/collections/dragon-girls-seriesDragon Girls Series
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/collections/a-murder-most-unl...A Murder Most Unladylike
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/about-usOur story
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This page redirects to "https://www.readings.com.au/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.31 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (457 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 04 Aug 2025 19:19:07 GMT
content-typetext/html
cache-controlpublic, max-age=86400
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servercloudflare
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varyOrigin,Accept-Encoding
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cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodingzstd
set-cookie324 Characters
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http_versionHTTP/2

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