Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

harpa.is

Harpa

Page Load Speed

20.3 sec in total

First Response

652 ms

Resources Loaded

17.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

harpa.is screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Harpa content for Iceland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about harpa.is

Harpa er eitt helsta kennileiti Reykjavíkur og er miðstöð menningar og mannlífs í hjarta miðborgarinnar, þar sem hún stendur tignarleg við hafnarbakkann.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harpa.is page load time and found that the first response time was 652 ms and then it took 19.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

harpa.is performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harpa.is

652 ms

salvattore.css

247 ms

css_rwOdoSv4vPaqoZY8UaT4GW52SsQBpNn_G7dyQFlgm6w.css

392 ms

js_DFgdrirtQPJBtguIbtW8oVZAzO36OmTOz9KSdDso-Xc.js

751 ms

js_cXp7CeOeuwNZGMQR7Ib2pLRZIV28rEdVzekG_ZVz2RY.js

859 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Harpa.is, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Harpa.is.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Harpa.is main page is 5.3 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 101.7 kB
  • After minification 89.3 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 12.4 kB, which is 12% 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 84.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 338.4 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Harpa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 289.1 kB

  • Original 430.2 kB
  • After minification 401.5 kB
  • After compression 141.1 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 289.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 227.8 kB

  • Original 264.5 kB
  • After minification 258.0 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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. Harpa.is needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (20%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harpa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

harpa.is accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

harpa.is best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

harpa.is SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    IS

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Harpa.is can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Icelandic 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 Harpa.is 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 Harpa. 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: