Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

photography.si.edu

Discontinued Website | Smithsonian Institution Archives

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

718 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

361 ms

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About Website

Welcome to photography.si.edu homepage info - get ready to check Photography Si best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about photography.si.edu

Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Photography.si.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 718 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

photography.si.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

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%

Network Requests Diagram

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.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.6 kB (45%)

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (76%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

12

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.

Accessibility Review

photography.si.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

photography.si.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

photography.si.edu SEO score

91

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

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 Photography.si.edu 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 Photography.si.edu 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 Photography Si. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: