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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

nypl.com

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

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

Welcome to nypl.com homepage info - get ready to check Nypl best content right away, or after learning these important things about nypl.com

After the wildly successful 2013 edition of Across A Crowded Room, we are about to launch a second edition that is more exciting than ever before.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nypl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 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

nypl.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.337

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nypl.com

24 ms

125

658 ms

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103 ms

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119 ms

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303 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nypl.com, 93% (100 requests) were made to Nypl.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (965 ms) relates to the external source Nypl.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nypl.com main page is 4.1 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. 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. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 120.6 kB

  • Original 145.9 kB
  • After minification 138.0 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 120.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 213.6 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB

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

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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 9.7 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 29.0 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 7.8 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (8%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

98

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nypl.com

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Accessibility Review

nypl.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nypl.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nypl.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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: