Tools & Wizards About Us
chicagofed.org screenshot

Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

chicagofed.org

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

chicagofed.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Chicago Fed content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about chicagofed.org

The homepage of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, including recent news, upcoming events, and economic snapshot data.

Visit chicagofed.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagofed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagofed.org performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagofed.org

38 ms

www.chicagofed.org

311 ms

css2

45 ms

webfont.js

33 ms

bootstrapmin.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagofed.org, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (485 ms) belongs to the original domain Chicagofed.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 450.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

733.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagofed.org main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 607.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 31.7 kB, which is 30% 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 91.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 607.8 kB
  • After minification 593.1 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. Chicago Fed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 114.5 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 173.0 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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 114.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 229.5 kB

  • Original 298.2 kB
  • After minification 296.2 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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. Chicagofed.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Fed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chicagofed.org

chicagofed.org

38 ms

www.chicagofed.org

www.chicagofed.org

311 ms

css2

css2

45 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

33 ms

bootstrapmin.css

bootstrapmin.css

32 ms

chicagofed.css

chicagofed.css

39 ms

SitecoreCssClasses.css

SitecoreCssClasses.css

126 ms

jquery341min.js

jquery341min.js

105 ms

bootstrapbundlemin.js

bootstrapbundlemin.js

207 ms

application.js

application.js

110 ms

js

js

77 ms

chicago-fed-logo-png.svg

chicago-fed-logo-png.svg

146 ms

avian-seal-grey

avian-seal-grey

143 ms

chicago-fed-logo-png.svg

chicago-fed-logo-png.svg

184 ms

search-icon

search-icon

207 ms

search.svg

search.svg

147 ms

house-icon

house-icon

147 ms

A1.jpg

A1.jpg

221 ms

quote-column.png

quote-column.png

228 ms

A3.jpg

A3.jpg

302 ms

B2.jpg

B2.jpg

263 ms

B1.jpg

B1.jpg

357 ms

B3.jpg

B3.jpg

284 ms

data-banner.png

data-banner.png

332 ms

arrow-double.svg

arrow-double.svg

328 ms

search-icon.svg

search-icon.svg

352 ms

chicago.png

chicago.png

368 ms

C2.jpg

C2.jpg

398 ms

jobs.jpg

jobs.jpg

400 ms

join-icon.svg

join-icon.svg

424 ms

money-museum.jpg

money-museum.jpg

438 ms

economic-mobility-project.jpg

economic-mobility-project.jpg

429 ms

beige-book-tile-3a.jpg

beige-book-tile-3a.jpg

471 ms

F9AE767E31AC4DB5A13ED6DBCE7E3CB2.ashx

F9AE767E31AC4DB5A13ED6DBCE7E3CB2.ashx

432 ms

twitter-png.svg

twitter-png.svg

424 ms

youtube-png.svg

youtube-png.svg

449 ms

facebook-png.svg

facebook-png.svg

452 ms

linkedin-png.svg

linkedin-png.svg

455 ms

instagram-png.svg

instagram-png.svg

462 ms

rss-png.svg

rss-png.svg

485 ms

chicagofedseal-png.svg

chicagofedseal-png.svg

474 ms

J7aRnpd8CGxBHqUp.ttf

J7aRnpd8CGxBHqUp.ttf

144 ms

J7acnpd8CGxBHp2VkZY4.ttf

J7acnpd8CGxBHp2VkZY4.ttf

171 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyXsovBJ.ttf

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyXsovBJ.ttf

34 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyovBJ.ttf

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyovBJ.ttf

33 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyVVpfBJ.ttf

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyVVpfBJ.ttf

32 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagofed.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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

chicagofed.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

chicagofed.org 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chicagofed.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 Chicagofed.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

chicagofed.org

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