Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

alexgalleries.com

Alex Galleries | Alex Gallery | Gallery A | Washington, DC

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

918 ms

Page Rendered

137 ms

alexgalleries.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Alex Galleries content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about alexgalleries.com

The Alex Gallery is a leading commercial art gallery in Washington, DC featuring contemporary American and European painting, sculpture, and work on paper.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexgalleries.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 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

alexgalleries.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.alexgalleries.com

170 ms

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103 ms

legacy.js

75 ms

modern.js

83 ms

extract-css-runtime-4ecd03fe9e125f115586-min.en-US.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Alexgalleries.com, 51% (19 requests) were made to Images.squarespace-cdn.com and 24% (9 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 313.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Alexgalleries.com main page is 7.2 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. 75% 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 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 169.3 kB

  • Original 192.6 kB
  • After minification 170.3 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 22.3 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 169.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 136.3 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Alex Galleries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 982.6 kB
  • After minification 982.6 kB
  • After compression 978.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Alexgalleries.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (30%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alex Galleries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alexgalleries.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

alexgalleries.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

alexgalleries.com SEO score

93

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

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 Alexgalleries.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 Alexgalleries.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alex Galleries. 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: