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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

smithsonian-images-website

718 ms

css

239 ms

css_r6NAKw1VDOlkQKtK35NXYACxVjzikOEMP00sfHlrSsI.css

39 ms

css_R9Ldbsqoz5WmJvqj4shHcKUdf_fUzwxn1QkAk-FyJ6Y.css

64 ms

css_sJx7pABFyUgjtTU_DNoJqy9uBqGAbDPRwaOmEiLSyQg.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Photography.si.edu, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (866 ms) relates to the external source M.addthis.com.

Content Size

641.2 kB

After Optimization

349.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Photography.si.edu main page is 641.2 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. 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 352.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

Original 135.2 kB
After minification 134.4 kB
After compression 27.9 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 107.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

Original 26.1 kB
After minification 23.3 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. Obviously, Photography Si needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 134.6 kB

Original 352.6 kB
After minification 345.0 kB
After compression 218.0 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 134.6 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

Original 127.4 kB
After minification 127.4 kB
After compression 80.4 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. Photography.si.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.0 kB or 37% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photography Si. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.