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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

openamericanexpress.com

American Express Credit Cards, Rewards, Travel and Business Services

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

393 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Openamericanexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 393 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

openamericanexpress.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smallbusiness.shtml

393 ms

2391 ms

homepage.fallback.src.css

79 ms

homepage.deviceBucketer.dyn.js

38 ms

sprite.gif

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Openamericanexpress.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Americanexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 kB (41%)

Content Size

5.4 kB

After Optimization

3.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Openamericanexpress.com main page is 5.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 3.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 1.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 29 B

  • Original 434 B
  • After minification 405 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. Open American Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 131 B

  • Original 772 B
  • After minification 772 B
  • After compression 641 B

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 131 B or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 252 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 968 B

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. Openamericanexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 252 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open American Express. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

smallbusiness.shtml

smallbusiness.shtml

393 ms

2391 ms

homepage.fallback.src.css

homepage.fallback.src.css

79 ms

homepage.deviceBucketer.dyn.js

homepage.deviceBucketer.dyn.js

38 ms

sprite.gif

sprite.gif

80 ms

header-bg.gif

header-bg.gif

56 ms

img_shdw_mainNav.png

img_shdw_mainNav.png

119 ms

Accessibility Review

openamericanexpress.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

openamericanexpress.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

openamericanexpress.com SEO score

77

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 Openamericanexpress.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 Openamericanexpress.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

openamericanexpress.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Open American Express. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: