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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cateringbymichaels.com

Catering Chicago + Full Service Catering Chicago | Catering by Michaels

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to cateringbymichaels.com homepage info - get ready to check Catering By Michaels best content right away, or after learning these important things about cateringbymichaels.com

Since 1980, Catering by Michaels has created countless unforgettable experiences for weddings, corporate events and social gatherings in and around Chicago.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cateringbymichaels.com page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 3.9 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

cateringbymichaels.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.287

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cateringbymichaels.com

256 ms

gtm.js

137 ms

font-awesome.min.css

94 ms

jquery-ui.css

75 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Cateringbymichaels.com, 8% (9 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) belongs to the original domain Cateringbymichaels.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.5 kB (2%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cateringbymichaels.com main page is 8.4 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. Images take 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 146.1 kB

  • Original 190.2 kB
  • After minification 177.0 kB
  • After compression 44.1 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 146.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 7.8 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. Catering By Michaels images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 318.6 kB
  • After minification 318.6 kB
  • After compression 312.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 384 B

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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. Cateringbymichaels.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (60%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catering By Michaels. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cateringbymichaels.com

www.cateringbymichaels.com

256 ms

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137 ms

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94 ms

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75 ms

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80 ms

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194 ms

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80 ms

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91 ms

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90 ms

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90 ms

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79 ms

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89 ms

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97 ms

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108 ms

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138 ms

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90 ms

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119 ms

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123 ms

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127 ms

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139 ms

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457 ms

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api.js

107 ms

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72 ms

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95 ms

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91 ms

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106 ms

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114 ms

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86 ms

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90 ms

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152 ms

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153 ms

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150 ms

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101 ms

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157 ms

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161 ms

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125 ms

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48 ms

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52 ms

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91 ms

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88 ms

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91 ms

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88 ms

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87 ms

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87 ms

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87 ms

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71 ms

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89 ms

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91 ms

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Accessibility Review

cateringbymichaels.com accessibility score

80

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

cateringbymichaels.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cateringbymichaels.com SEO score

100

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cateringbymichaels.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cateringbymichaels.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Catering By Michaels. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: