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americanexpress.com.kw

American Express Kuwait - Home

Page Load Speed

21.3 sec in total

First Response

801 ms

Resources Loaded

20.4 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanexpress.com.kw page load time and found that the first response time was 801 ms and then it took 20.5 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

americanexpress.com.kw performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

americanexpress.com.kw

801 ms

1372 ms

homepage.min.css

1131 ms

inav_responsive_intl.css

1962 ms

btnSpriteStyles.css

1180 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Americanexpress.com.kw, 90% (55 requests) were made to Secure.americanexpress.com.bh and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Secure.americanexpress.com.bh.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 965.7 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

633.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Americanexpress.com.kw main page is 1.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 676.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 8.6 kB, which is 17% 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 39.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 344.0 kB
  • After minification 341.6 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 Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 474.4 kB

  • Original 676.3 kB
  • After minification 596.6 kB
  • After compression 201.9 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 474.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 449.0 kB

  • Original 526.8 kB
  • After minification 483.7 kB
  • After compression 77.8 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. Americanexpress.com.kw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 449.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (64%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Express. 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 from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

americanexpress.com.kw SEO score

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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 Americanexpress.com.kw 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 Americanexpress.com.kw 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 Express. 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: