Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

digital-libraries.artic.edu

Archival Collections | The Art Institute of Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digital-libraries.artic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digital-libraries.artic.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digital-libraries.artic.edu

82 ms

archival-collections

53 ms

picturefill.min.js

70 ms

icons-2fe826e63747528c.svg

14 ms

video-js.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Digital-libraries.artic.edu, 42% (11 requests) were made to Artic.edu and 38% (10 requests) were made to Artic-web.imgix.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (822 ms) relates to the external source Artic-web.imgix.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

436.4 kB

After Optimization

280.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Digital-libraries.artic.edu main page is 436.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 222.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 148.7 kB

  • Original 172.7 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 26.6 kB, which is 15% 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 148.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 41.4 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. Digital Libraries Art Ic images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 222.3 kB
  • After minification 222.3 kB
  • After compression 215.4 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. Digital-libraries.artic.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Libraries Art Ic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

digital-libraries.artic.edu accessibility score

88

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

digital-libraries.artic.edu best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

digital-libraries.artic.edu SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Digital-libraries.artic.edu 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 Digital-libraries.artic.edu 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 data is detected on the main page of Digital Libraries Art Ic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: