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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

artsinstituteofchicago.com

Downtown Chicago's #1 Museum | The Art Institute of Chicago

Page Load Speed

48.7 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

28.3 sec

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About Website

Visit artsinstituteofchicago.com now to see the best up-to-date Art S Institute Of Chicago content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about artsinstituteofchicago.com

Located downtown by Millennium Park, this top art museum is TripAdvisor's #1 Chicago attraction—a must when visiting the city.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Artsinstituteofchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 48.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

artsinstituteofchicago.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value37,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

artsinstituteofchicago.com

178 ms

www.artic.edu

134 ms

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video-js.css

532 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Artsinstituteofchicago.com, 48% (44 requests) were made to Artic-web.imgix.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Artic.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.4 sec) relates to the external source Artic-web.imgix.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 485.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Artsinstituteofchicago.com main page is 2.1 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 367.7 kB

  • Original 439.0 kB
  • After minification 409.4 kB
  • After compression 71.3 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 367.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 112.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Art S Institute Of Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 244 B

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 193.8 kB
  • After minification 193.8 kB
  • After compression 189.2 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. Artsinstituteofchicago.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (28%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Art S Institute Of 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

artsinstituteofchicago.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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.

Best Practices

artsinstituteofchicago.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

artsinstituteofchicago.com 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 Artsinstituteofchicago.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 Artsinstituteofchicago.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

artsinstituteofchicago.com

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