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nationaldesignawards.org

National Design Awards | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

840 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

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About the awards The National Design Awards were conceived by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to honor lasting achievement in American design. The

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationaldesignawards.org page load time and found that the first response time was 840 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

nationaldesignawards.org

840 ms

www.nationaldesignawards.org

1617 ms

1027 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

14 ms

styles.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Nationaldesignawards.org, 55% (30 requests) were made to Uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationaldesignawards.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 841.4 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

810.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationaldesignawards.org main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 614.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 63.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 519.9 kB
  • After minification 502.3 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. National Design Awards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 395.1 kB

  • Original 614.9 kB
  • After minification 609.8 kB
  • After compression 219.9 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 395.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 365.3 kB

  • Original 442.7 kB
  • After minification 439.8 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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. Nationaldesignawards.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 365.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (57%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 47 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Nationaldesignawards.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 Nationaldesignawards.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 National Design Awards. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: