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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

som.com

Homepage – SOM

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

926 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

Visit som.com now to see the best up-to-date SOM content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about som.com

SOM is one of the largest and most influential architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban planning firms in the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Som.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

som.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

som.com

60 ms

www.som.com

123 ms

css

23 ms

6a388860-6257-44c6-b231-8c45a7297bcd.css

57 ms

som.min.css

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Som.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Zssom.mpeasylink.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cloud.webtype.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (168 ms) relates to the external source Seg.sharethis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 491.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Som.com main page is 1.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 29.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. SOM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 371.9 kB

  • Original 536.8 kB
  • After minification 534.8 kB
  • After compression 164.9 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 371.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 82.2 kB

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. Som.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (37%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOM. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

som.com

som.com

60 ms

www.som.com

www.som.com

123 ms

css

css

23 ms

6a388860-6257-44c6-b231-8c45a7297bcd.css

6a388860-6257-44c6-b231-8c45a7297bcd.css

57 ms

som.min.css

som.min.css

4 ms

jquery.1.9.1.min.js

jquery.1.9.1.min.js

9 ms

jquery.tender.selectstyle.js

jquery.tender.selectstyle.js

6 ms

som.min.js

som.min.js

9 ms

mp_linkcode.js

mp_linkcode.js

7 ms

mpel.js

mpel.js

32 ms

v.gif

v.gif

109 ms

logo-2.png

logo-2.png

86 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

74 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

39 ms

sprites.png

sprites.png

12 ms

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38 ms

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38 ms

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37 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

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36 ms

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39 ms

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42 ms

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39 ms

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42 ms

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ps62_236x145_jamesewing_otto_01.jpg

39 ms

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41 ms

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42 ms

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42 ms

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43 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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ccld_236x145_som_01.jpg

47 ms

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som_structuralengineering_cover_236x145_som_01.jpg

48 ms

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49 ms

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chinamerchantstower_236x145_timgriffith_08.jpg

50 ms

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greewichacademy_236x145_robertpolidori.jpg

51 ms

som_thinkers_236x145_som.jpg

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50 ms

spinner.gif

spinner.gif

51 ms

3164.js

3164.js

47 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

88 ms

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

44 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

som_icons.ttf

som_icons.ttf

25 ms

4d4b7fe1-e992-49e3-bf4d-fc5fa7748680

4d4b7fe1-e992-49e3-bf4d-fc5fa7748680

56 ms

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d83ae6ea-3e97-40da-8419-4c3b99e48561

84 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

mpel

mpel

20 ms

mpel_ssd.js

mpel_ssd.js

13 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

20 ms

nr-852.min.js

nr-852.min.js

67 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

12 ms

8732b912cf

8732b912cf

53 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

168 ms

checkOAuth.esi

checkOAuth.esi

9 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

6 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

11 ms

cm

cm

10 ms

15 ms

s-3271.xgi

s-3271.xgi

11 ms

hbpix

hbpix

32 ms

11 ms

xrefid.xgi

xrefid.xgi

7 ms

pixel

pixel

32 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

2981

2981

29 ms

Accessibility Review

som.com accessibility score

94

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

som.com 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

som.com SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Som.com 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 Som.com 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of SOM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: