Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

askart.com

askART: Art prices, artist art auction records

Page Load Speed

16.9 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

5.5 sec

askart.com screenshot

About Website

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askART Homepage. askART: Art auction results + records, artwork prices, appraisers, signatures and artist biographies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Askart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 16.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

askart.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.493

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

askart.com

231 ms

www.askart.com

531 ms

style.css

329 ms

jquery-ui.css

151 ms

sm-core-css.css

466 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Askart.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Askart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Askart.com main page is 4.1 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 34.5 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 30.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 84.8 kB

  • Original 3.4 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. AskART images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 318.9 kB

  • Original 472.3 kB
  • After minification 463.5 kB
  • After compression 153.5 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 318.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 122.9 kB

  • Original 142.0 kB
  • After minification 105.2 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. Askart.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (34%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AskART. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

askart.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

askart.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

askart.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Askart.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 Askart.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 AskART. 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: