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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

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Photography Workshops | How to be a Photographer | Aperture Academy

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apertureacademy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apertureacademy.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.731

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apertureacademy.com

173 ms

www.apertureacademy.com

479 ms

black.css

218 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

506 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Apertureacademy.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Apertureacademy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apertureacademy.com main page is 3.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.2 kB, which is 51% 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 48.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 333.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Aperture Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 140.7 kB
  • After minification 137.5 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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 67.9 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Apertureacademy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (11%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aperture Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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apertureacademy.com

173 ms

www.apertureacademy.com

www.apertureacademy.com

479 ms

black.css

black.css

218 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

506 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

9 ms

jquery.immersive-slider.js

jquery.immersive-slider.js

218 ms

immersive-slider.css

immersive-slider.css

146 ms

aa-logo-black.gif

aa-logo-black.gif

146 ms

gift-icon.png

gift-icon.png

149 ms

switch-off.png

switch-off.png

148 ms

costa-rica-banner-sm.jpg

costa-rica-banner-sm.jpg

584 ms

banner-dark-side-bodie-sm.jpg

banner-dark-side-bodie-sm.jpg

618 ms

banner-sf-sm.jpg

banner-sf-sm.jpg

582 ms

banner-yos-ad-sm.jpg

banner-yos-ad-sm.jpg

724 ms

banner-dark-side-sm.jpg

banner-dark-side-sm.jpg

871 ms

banner-vof-sm.jpg

banner-vof-sm.jpg

872 ms

banner-desert-sw-sm.jpg

banner-desert-sw-sm.jpg

1234 ms

grizzly-banner-sm.jpg

grizzly-banner-sm.jpg

1305 ms

banner-nl-sm.jpg

banner-nl-sm.jpg

1196 ms

icon-camera-sm.png

icon-camera-sm.png

868 ms

new.gif

new.gif

1016 ms

partner-logo-bayphoto.png

partner-logo-bayphoto.png

1018 ms

partner-logo-fstop.jpg

partner-logo-fstop.jpg

1086 ms

partner-logo-borrowlenses.jpg

partner-logo-borrowlenses.jpg

1300 ms

partner-logo-singhray.jpg

partner-logo-singhray.jpg

1229 ms

partner-logo-smugmug.png

partner-logo-smugmug.png

1232 ms

partner-logo-macphun.png

partner-logo-macphun.png

1483 ms

partner-logo-induro.jpg

partner-logo-induro.jpg

1449 ms

partner-logo-thinktank.jpg

partner-logo-thinktank.jpg

1519 ms

footer-bar.png

footer-bar.png

1377 ms

logo_facebook.png

logo_facebook.png

1445 ms

logo_twitter.png

logo_twitter.png

1448 ms

div-corner-bk.jpg

div-corner-bk.jpg

1634 ms

live.js

live.js

177 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

costa-rica-banner-lg.jpg

costa-rica-banner-lg.jpg

1829 ms

banner-dark-side-bodie-lg.jpg

banner-dark-side-bodie-lg.jpg

1903 ms

banner-sf-lg.jpg

banner-sf-lg.jpg

1974 ms

banner-yos-ad-lg.jpg

banner-yos-ad-lg.jpg

2226 ms

banner-dark-side-lg.jpg

banner-dark-side-lg.jpg

1973 ms

banner-vof-lg.jpg

banner-vof-lg.jpg

2228 ms

banner-desert-sw-lg.jpg

banner-desert-sw-lg.jpg

2260 ms

grizzly-banner-lg.jpg

grizzly-banner-lg.jpg

2333 ms

banner-nl-lg.jpg

banner-nl-lg.jpg

2549 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

8 ms

Accessibility Review

apertureacademy.com accessibility score

69

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

apertureacademy.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

apertureacademy.com SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apertureacademy.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Apertureacademy.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 description is not detected on the main page of Aperture Academy. 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: