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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

global.americanexpress.com

American Express Credit Cards, Rewards & Banking

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

816 ms

Page Rendered

291 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Global.americanexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

global.americanexpress.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.americanexpress.com

96 ms

dls.min.css

46 ms

app.css

63 ms

app_top.js

69 ms

styles.min.b80632b81a35021e4bb28caa7e93739a.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Global.americanexpress.com, 46% (18 requests) were made to Americanexpress.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Icm.aexp-static.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Aexp-static.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

760.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Global.americanexpress.com main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 964.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 514.1 kB

  • Original 571.3 kB
  • After minification 543.3 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 514.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 312.0 kB
  • After minification 309.0 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. Global American Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 629.9 kB

  • Original 964.2 kB
  • After minification 964.0 kB
  • After compression 334.3 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 629.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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. Global.americanexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (25%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.americanexpress.com

www.americanexpress.com

96 ms

dls.min.css

dls.min.css

46 ms

app.css

app.css

63 ms

app_top.js

app_top.js

69 ms

styles.min.b80632b81a35021e4bb28caa7e93739a.css

styles.min.b80632b81a35021e4bb28caa7e93739a.css

76 ms

navScript.js

navScript.js

159 ms

footerScript.js

footerScript.js

329 ms

navscript.js

navscript.js

49 ms

app_bottom.js

app_bottom.js

42 ms

dls.min.js

dls.min.js

43 ms

enterprise.min.b01db0eb5f9806a34c5530aef6d29a87.js

enterprise.min.b01db0eb5f9806a34c5530aef6d29a87.js

138 ms

homepage.min.18745b7c318116282731aadfaf737c1c.js

homepage.min.18745b7c318116282731aadfaf737c1c.js

139 ms

dls-icons.min.js

dls-icons.min.js

336 ms

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

44 ms

dls-logo-stack.svg

dls-logo-stack.svg

42 ms

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

43 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

135 ms

dls-logo-line.svg

dls-logo-line.svg

15 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

204 ms

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hiltonaspirelto-6172024_cardart.png

196 ms

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delatplatlto-6172024_Cardart.png

193 ms

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card-us-en-hp-hero-cta-all-platinumevergreen-08112023.png

195 ms

consumer-tagline-blue.png

consumer-tagline-blue.png

193 ms

consumer-card-shop-promo-placement-v2.png

consumer-card-shop-promo-placement-v2.png

202 ms

us-en-hp-promo-sbs-plat-metal-2018-di.png

us-en-hp-promo-sbs-plat-metal-2018-di.png

196 ms

BPlatBAU-25042024_cardart.png

BPlatBAU-25042024_cardart.png

197 ms

business-tagline-white.png

business-tagline-white.png

199 ms

Tagline.png

Tagline.png

198 ms

us-en-hp-promo-cta-all-Corporate-VAC-1082024.jpg

us-en-hp-promo-cta-all-Corporate-VAC-1082024.jpg

199 ms

us-en-hp-mt2-pr-all-amextravel-08012023.jpg

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50 ms

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48 ms

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148 ms

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59 ms

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107 ms

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20 ms

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107 ms

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108 ms

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107 ms

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107 ms

Accessibility Review

global.americanexpress.com accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

global.americanexpress.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

global.americanexpress.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Global.americanexpress.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 Global.americanexpress.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 data is detected on the main page of Global American Express. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: