Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

amextravel.com

American Express Travel: Book Flights, Hotels, Cars, Cruises & More

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

552 ms

About Website

Welcome to amextravel.com homepage info - get ready to check Amex Travel best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about amextravel.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Amextravel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.7 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

amextravel.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.522

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

travel

1623 ms

dls.min.css

57 ms

mobile-travel-logo_en-us.svg

481 ms

navscript.js

18 ms

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Amextravel.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Icm.aexp-static.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Americanexpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Americanexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Amextravel.com main page is 3.2 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 559.4 kB

  • Original 657.5 kB
  • After minification 657.3 kB
  • After compression 98.1 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 559.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 445.5 kB
  • After minification 445.5 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. Amex Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 905.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 1.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 905.7 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 746 B

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Amextravel.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (64%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Amex Travel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

amextravel.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

amextravel.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

amextravel.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 Amextravel.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 Amextravel.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

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