Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

americanwritersmuseum.org

The American Writers Museum - An Interactive Museum in Chicago, IL

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing American Writers Museum content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about americanwritersmuseum.org

In the heart of downtown Chicago, the American Writers Museum celebrates all genres of writing through interactive exhibits and programming. Visit today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanwritersmuseum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 126 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

americanwritersmuseum.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanwritersmuseum.org

126 ms

americanwritersmuseum.org

52 ms

gtm.js

139 ms

uc.js

130 ms

select2.min.css

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Americanwritersmuseum.org, 41% (36 requests) were made to 149352626.v2.pressablecdn.com and 20% (17 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (593 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanwritersmuseum.org main page is 2.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 255.2 kB

  • Original 314.5 kB
  • After minification 305.9 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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 255.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 752.1 kB
  • After minification 752.1 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. American Writers Museum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 184.3 kB
  • After minification 184.3 kB
  • After compression 181.0 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. Americanwritersmuseum.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (80%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Writers Museum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americanwritersmuseum.org accessibility score

93

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

americanwritersmuseum.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

americanwritersmuseum.org SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Americanwritersmuseum.org 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 Americanwritersmuseum.org 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 American Writers Museum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: