Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

illinoissunshine.org

Illinois Sunshine - Keep an eye on money in Illinois politics

Page Load Speed

613 ms in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

343 ms

Page Rendered

249 ms

About Website

Visit illinoissunshine.org now to see the best up-to-date Illinois Sunshine content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about illinoissunshine.org

Keep an eye on money in Illinois politics. Search or browse political committees, donations and expenditures going back to 1994.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinoissunshine.org page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 592 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

illinoissunshine.org performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illinoissunshine.org

21 ms

bootstrap.simplex.min.css

23 ms

dataTables.bootstrap.css

5 ms

font-awesome.min.css

20 ms

custom.css

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Illinoissunshine.org, 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (254 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.2 kB (69%)

Content Size

437.9 kB

After Optimization

135.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Illinoissunshine.org main page is 437.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 195.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.5 kB, which is 25% 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 43.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 34.7 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, Illinois Sunshine needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 130.0 kB

  • Original 195.8 kB
  • After minification 191.3 kB
  • After compression 65.8 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 130.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 123.8 kB

  • Original 148.5 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. Illinoissunshine.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (65%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois Sunshine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

illinoissunshine.org accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

illinoissunshine.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

illinoissunshine.org SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Illinoissunshine.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 Illinoissunshine.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 Illinois Sunshine. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: