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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

smartbarchicago.com

Smartbar | Live Music, Concerts, and Events | Chicago, IL

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

556 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

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About Website

Visit smartbarchicago.com now to see the best up-to-date Smartbar Chicago content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about smartbarchicago.com

Smart Bar is Chicago’s independent nightclub, celebrating 35 years of showcasing new and exciting dance music and the most cutting edge DJ’s from around the globe.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smartbarchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 556 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smartbarchicago.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smartbarchicago.com

556 ms

style.css

405 ms

jquery.min.js

18 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

467 ms

text_replace.js

403 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smartbarchicago.com, 45% (15 requests) were made to Smartblogchicago.com and 15% (5 requests) were made to W.soundcloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) belongs to the original domain Smartbarchicago.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 287.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

708.0 kB

After Optimization

420.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smartbarchicago.com main page is 708.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 375.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.5 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 148.3 kB
  • After minification 139.9 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. Smartbar Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 100.6 kB

  • Original 162.7 kB
  • After minification 162.2 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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 100.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 162.3 kB

  • Original 375.3 kB
  • After minification 368.1 kB
  • After compression 213.0 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. Smartbarchicago.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 162.3 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smartbar Chicago. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smartbarchicago.com

smartbarchicago.com

556 ms

style.css

style.css

405 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

467 ms

text_replace.js

text_replace.js

403 ms

nivoslider4wp.css

nivoslider4wp.css

402 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

434 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

435 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

102 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

67 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

43 ms

circle_bkgd.png

circle_bkgd.png

131 ms

smart_bar_logo.png

smart_bar_logo.png

128 ms

691_s.jpeg

691_s.jpeg

168 ms

692_s.jpeg

692_s.jpeg

168 ms

693_s.jpeg

693_s.jpeg

130 ms

694_s.png

694_s.png

291 ms

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CaNWbhbWkAQr-Bx.jpg-large-300x300.jpeg

167 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

125 ms

203 ms

206 ms

204 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

156 ms

css

css

61 ms

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

131 ms

interstate-0ab59479718c8235122cad6b16a66953d725c43a.css

interstate-0ab59479718c8235122cad6b16a66953d725c43a.css

236 ms

widget-0511d506.css

widget-0511d506.css

53 ms

widget-d9304090.js

widget-d9304090.js

132 ms

Y_TKV6o8WovbUd3m_X9aAA.ttf

Y_TKV6o8WovbUd3m_X9aAA.ttf

5 ms

syndication

syndication

86 ms

433278894011990017

433278894011990017

194 ms

Accessibility Review

smartbarchicago.com accessibility score

60

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

smartbarchicago.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

smartbarchicago.com SEO score

54

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Smartbarchicago.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 Smartbarchicago.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

smartbarchicago.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smartbar Chicago. 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: