Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

architectour.net

Architectour.net International Contemporary Architecture Database

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

844 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Architectour.net page load time and found that the first response time was 844 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

architectour.net performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.41

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

architectour.net

844 ms

style.css

444 ms

script_js.js

671 ms

spacer.gif

232 ms

quad_din_menu.gif

704 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Architectour.net, 13% (8 requests) were made to Bookshop.architectour.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Architectour.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Architectour.net main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 78.7 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 12.7 kB, which is 14% 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 76.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.2 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. Architectour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 52.1 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 46.0 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Architectour.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (29%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Architectour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

architectour.net accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

architectour.net best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

architectour.net SEO score

54

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Architectour.net 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 Architectour.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Architectour. 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: