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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

chicagohalfmarathon.com

Chicago Half Marathon and 5K - Chicago's Hometown Race

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

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About Website

Visit chicagohalfmarathon.com now to see the best up-to-date Chicago Half Marathon content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chicagohalfmarathon.com

Experience the electric atmosphere as thousands of runners come together to push their limits and achieve personal milestones. From the cheering crowds to the rhythm of the city, every step of the way...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagohalfmarathon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagohalfmarathon.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,310 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagohalfmarathon.com

194 ms

www.chicagohalfmarathon.com

327 ms

ga.js

27 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

72 ms

style.css

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagohalfmarathon.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) relates to the external source Themiamimarathon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.4 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

892.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagohalfmarathon.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 732.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 47.7 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. 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 39.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 732.6 kB
  • After minification 701.0 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 Half Marathon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 261.0 kB

  • Original 417.3 kB
  • After minification 381.3 kB
  • After compression 156.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 261.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 152.3 kB
  • After minification 125.3 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. Chicagohalfmarathon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (57%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Half Marathon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chicagohalfmarathon.com

chicagohalfmarathon.com

194 ms

www.chicagohalfmarathon.com

www.chicagohalfmarathon.com

327 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

72 ms

style.css

style.css

139 ms

foundation-responsive.css

foundation-responsive.css

144 ms

style-custom.css

style-custom.css

142 ms

css

css

31 ms

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39 ms

css

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47 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

144 ms

css

css

48 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

145 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

146 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

210 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

206 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

211 ms

colorbox.min.css

colorbox.min.css

214 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

278 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

212 ms

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

341 ms

greensock.js

greensock.js

343 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

278 ms

commitment.js

commitment.js

276 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

276 ms

racecertificate.js

racecertificate.js

342 ms

jquery.colorbox.1.5.9-min.js

jquery.colorbox.1.5.9-min.js

345 ms

helper.min.js

helper.min.js

346 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

347 ms

supersub.js

supersub.js

406 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

408 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

410 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

412 ms

jquery.fancybox-media.js

jquery.fancybox-media.js

413 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.js

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.js

414 ms

gdl-scripts.js

gdl-scripts.js

474 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

478 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

479 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

style.css

style.css

356 ms

MarathonFoto.jpg

MarathonFoto.jpg

496 ms

ChicagoHalf-bg.jpg

ChicagoHalf-bg.jpg

206 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

93 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

94 ms

commitment-day-logo.png

commitment-day-logo.png

95 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

96 ms

Chicago-Half-shirt-2015.jpg

Chicago-Half-shirt-2015.jpg

208 ms

2015-CHM-Race-Shuttle.jpg

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316 ms

2016-Medal-Top-Secret.png

2016-Medal-Top-Secret.png

348 ms

Michelob-Ultra-Logo-2015.png

Michelob-Ultra-Logo-2015.png

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149 ms

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218 ms

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218 ms

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273 ms

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277 ms

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2015-Athlinks-SM-Border.png

287 ms

CARA-Certified_Race_Logo.jpg

CARA-Certified_Race_Logo.jpg

421 ms

LT_Athletic_Events_V2.png

LT_Athletic_Events_V2.png

341 ms

facebook-footer.png

facebook-footer.png

345 ms

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354 ms

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386 ms

down-arrow.png

down-arrow.png

405 ms

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395 ms

sidebar-bg6.jpg

sidebar-bg6.jpg

393 ms

button-shadow.png

button-shadow.png

404 ms

ProximaNova-SboldWeb.woff

ProximaNova-SboldWeb.woff

432 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

455 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

skin.css

skin.css

405 ms

ProximaNova-RegWeb.woff

ProximaNova-RegWeb.woff

406 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

5 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

21 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

17 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagohalfmarathon.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chicagohalfmarathon.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chicagohalfmarathon.com SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Chicagohalfmarathon.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 Chicagohalfmarathon.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

chicagohalfmarathon.com

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