Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

americanart.si.edu

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanart.si.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanart.si.edu performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanart.si.edu

12 ms

americanart.si.edu

46 ms

gtm.js

122 ms

js

521 ms

css_GjlCkTxZwDKGEMvZtnq2PCT1xq1GWDEeeriwM3k-Ers.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Americanart.si.edu, 46% (37 requests) were made to Cdn.saam.media and 22% (18 requests) were made to Rsms.me. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.saam.media.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanart.si.edu main page is 1.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 754.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 201.2 kB

  • Original 236.0 kB
  • After minification 226.5 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 201.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 754.1 kB
  • After minification 743.8 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. American Art Si images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 157 B

  • Original 249.9 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 249.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 136.0 kB
  • After minification 136.0 kB
  • After compression 135.8 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. Americanart.si.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Art Si. 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

americanart.si.edu accessibility score

88

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

americanart.si.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

americanart.si.edu 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 Americanart.si.edu 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 Americanart.si.edu 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 American Art Si. 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: