Access nationaldesignawards.org. National Design Awards | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

nationaldesignawards.org

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www.nationaldesignawards.org

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Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Nationaldesignawards.org, 36% (36 requests) were made to Cooperhewitt.org and 13% (13 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Adservice.google.com.

Content Size

606.1 kB

After Optimization

474.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationaldesignawards.org main page is 606.1 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. 75% 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 374.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

Original 99.1 kB
After minification 92.9 kB
After compression 17.8 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 81.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1 B

Original 170 B
After minification 169 B

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. National Design Awards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

Original 374.1 kB
After minification 373.9 kB
After compression 324.4 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 49.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 702 B

Original 132.7 kB
After minification 132.7 kB
After compression 132.0 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. Nationaldesignawards.org has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Design Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.