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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

nypl.com

Across A Crowded Room: 2015 Edition | The New York Public Library

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nypl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 13 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nypl.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,150 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nypl.com

48 ms

across-crowded-room

191 ms

across-crowded-room

499 ms

wombat.js

401 ms

AIT_Analytics.js

432 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nypl.com, 94% (46 requests) were made to Wayback.archive-it.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Nypl.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.1 sec) relates to the external source Wayback.archive-it.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 575.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

541.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nypl.com main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 413.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 134.1 kB
  • After minification 131.0 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 101.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 413.1 kB
  • After minification 408.6 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. Nypl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 291.7 kB

  • Original 355.6 kB
  • After minification 242.9 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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 291.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 177.5 kB

  • Original 213.5 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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. Nypl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (68%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nypl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nypl.com

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48 ms

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191 ms

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499 ms

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401 ms

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432 ms

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Accessibility Review

nypl.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

nypl.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

nypl.com SEO score

85

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Nypl.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 Nypl.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

nypl.com

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