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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

connectchicago.org

Connect Chicago Locations - Map | City of Chicago | Data Portal

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

71 ms

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Connect Chicago is a loose network of more than 250 places in the city where internet and computer access, digital skills training, and online learning resources are available—for free. This data set...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connectchicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

connectchicago.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,390 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connectchicago.org

15 ms

4jzv-pgsc

795 ms

jquery.min.js

19 ms

ua-parser.min.js

9 ms

vendor.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Connectchicago.org, 79% (33 requests) were made to Data.cityofchicago.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (795 ms) relates to the external source Data.cityofchicago.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 744.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connectchicago.org main page is 4.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 712.9 kB

  • Original 953.4 kB
  • After minification 948.8 kB
  • After compression 240.5 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 712.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 102.3 kB
  • After minification 74.1 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, Connect Chicago needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.3 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB
  • After compression 3.6 MB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 148.6 kB
  • After minification 148.2 kB
  • After compression 146.8 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. Connectchicago.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (74%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

connectchicago.org accessibility score

84

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

connectchicago.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

connectchicago.org SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Connectchicago.org 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 Connectchicago.org 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 Connect Chicago. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: