Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sync.americanexpress.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 303 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sync.americanexpress.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sync.americanexpress.co.uk

303 ms

sync.americanexpress.co.uk

230 ms

Foursquare

48 ms

amex-offer.html

262 ms

SiteStyleSheet.css

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Sync.americanexpress.co.uk, 37% (17 requests) were made to Web.aexp-static.com and 35% (16 requests) were made to Americanexpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (856 ms) relates to the external source Web.aexp-static.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

530.4 kB

After Optimization

313.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Sync.americanexpress.co.uk main page is 530.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 283.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. 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 17.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 283.1 kB
  • After minification 265.1 kB

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. Sync Americanexpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 95.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 101.9 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Sync.americanexpress.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sync Americanexpress. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sync.americanexpress.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sync.americanexpress.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Sync.americanexpress.co.uk 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sync Americanexpress. 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: