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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

online.americanexpress.com

American Express Credit Cards, Rewards & Banking

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.americanexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

online.americanexpress.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.americanexpress.com

217 ms

dls.min.css

131 ms

app.css

218 ms

app_top.js

191 ms

styles.min.064d1552cb3d76759df6d19d4e2045f7.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Online.americanexpress.com, 44% (20 requests) were made to Americanexpress.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (987 ms) relates to the external source Americanexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 912.3 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

624.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Online.americanexpress.com main page is 1.5 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 738.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 379.9 kB

  • Original 434.1 kB
  • After minification 406.5 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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 379.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 307.5 kB
  • After minification 304.1 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. Online American Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 520.0 kB

  • Original 738.7 kB
  • After minification 738.5 kB
  • After compression 218.7 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 520.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 56.4 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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. Online.americanexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (22%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.americanexpress.com

www.americanexpress.com

217 ms

dls.min.css

dls.min.css

131 ms

app.css

app.css

218 ms

app_top.js

app_top.js

191 ms

styles.min.064d1552cb3d76759df6d19d4e2045f7.css

styles.min.064d1552cb3d76759df6d19d4e2045f7.css

94 ms

navScript.js

navScript.js

153 ms

app_bottom.js

app_bottom.js

126 ms

dls.min.js

dls.min.js

318 ms

enterprise.min.5504bd5a5856e4f9af1efdfb409686cc.js

enterprise.min.5504bd5a5856e4f9af1efdfb409686cc.js

144 ms

homepage.min.fde33db883f3296daccc53ef0492de08.js

homepage.min.fde33db883f3296daccc53ef0492de08.js

149 ms

401 ms

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

144 ms

dls-logo-stack.svg

dls-logo-stack.svg

147 ms

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

323 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

317 ms

dls-logo-line.svg

dls-logo-line.svg

98 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

95 ms

m-week-logo-09-14-22.png

m-week-logo-09-14-22.png

252 ms

en-us-refer-amex.png

en-us-refer-amex.png

251 ms

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marriott-bezel-card-art-lto-09-19-22.png

252 ms

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us-en-hp-hero-hilton-surpass-tagline-1.png

249 ms

member-week-promo-9-8-22.jpg

member-week-promo-9-8-22.jpg

272 ms

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us-en-hp-promo-alinea.jpg

271 ms

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270 ms

business-tagline-white.png

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270 ms

us-en-hp-promo-card-selection.png

us-en-hp-promo-card-selection.png

404 ms

us-en-hp-promo2-all-apauto-spring-promo.jpg

us-en-hp-promo2-all-apauto-spring-promo.jpg

428 ms

us-en-hp-mt2-cta-pr-findabusinesscard.jpg

us-en-hp-mt2-cta-pr-findabusinesscard.jpg

428 ms

us-en-hp-mt2-credit-secure.jpg

us-en-hp-mt2-credit-secure.jpg

427 ms

us-en-hp-mt-benefits.jpg

us-en-hp-mt-benefits.jpg

425 ms

ws-bg-light-grey.png

ws-bg-light-grey.png

425 ms

satelliteLib-bea3c9697c6240996731438f72200c4b82ae0d40.js

satelliteLib-bea3c9697c6240996731438f72200c4b82ae0d40.js

345 ms

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157 ms

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159 ms

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156 ms

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332 ms

dls-icons.woff

dls-icons.woff

174 ms

dls-icons.woff

dls-icons.woff

332 ms

getLoginRedirectUrl.json

getLoginRedirectUrl.json

987 ms

EXe6313b304bd5460ea6c510f9d0b003a5-libraryCode_source.min.js

EXe6313b304bd5460ea6c510f9d0b003a5-libraryCode_source.min.js

705 ms

Accessibility Review

online.americanexpress.com accessibility score

91

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

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

online.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

online.americanexpress.com SEO score

86

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

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 Online.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 Online.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

online.americanexpress.com

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