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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

chicagokiteboarder.com

equipment, tips and tricks for Kiteboarding in Chicago

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

88 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagokiteboarder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagokiteboarder.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagokiteboarder.com

62 ms

stmenu.js

13 ms

widget.php

6140 ms

spacer.gif

123 ms

index_back.jpg

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagokiteboarder.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to Chicagotraveler.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Weather.hotel-travel-vacation.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) relates to the external source Weather.hotel-travel-vacation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

75.2 kB

After Optimization

53.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chicagokiteboarder.com main page is 75.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 36.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 21.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 36.6 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 Kiteboarder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 637 B

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Kiteboarder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chicagokiteboarder.com

chicagokiteboarder.com

62 ms

stmenu.js

stmenu.js

13 ms

widget.php

widget.php

6140 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

123 ms

index_back.jpg

index_back.jpg

19 ms

chicagokiteboarder.gif

chicagokiteboarder.gif

18 ms

information.gif

information.gif

18 ms

bluepix.gif

bluepix.gif

18 ms

welcome_title.gif

welcome_title.gif

21 ms

topnav_left.gif

topnav_left.gif

21 ms

btsafety.gif

btsafety.gif

20 ms

btkiteboarding.gif

btkiteboarding.gif

20 ms

bttips.gif

bttips.gif

20 ms

btlessons.gif

btlessons.gif

20 ms

btlinks.gif

btlinks.gif

26 ms

btcontactus.gif

btcontactus.gif

23 ms

bthome.gif

bthome.gif

25 ms

leftnav_back.jpg

leftnav_back.jpg

24 ms

best.gif

best.gif

26 ms

globe.gif

globe.gif

24 ms

litewave.gif

litewave.gif

27 ms

nsi.gif

nsi.gif

28 ms

underground.gif

underground.gif

28 ms

flysurfer.gif

flysurfer.gif

30 ms

anomaly.gif

anomaly.gif

29 ms

padre.png

padre.png

30 ms

kitecamp.png

kitecamp.png

33 ms

stdom.js

stdom.js

20 ms

stinit.js

stinit.js

21 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

21 ms

sthilight.js

sthilight.js

5 ms

chi-weather-120x130.gif

chi-weather-120x130.gif

114 ms

vertical_solution_PPeCheck.gif

vertical_solution_PPeCheck.gif

19 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

96 ms

chi-weather-120x130.gif

chi-weather-120x130.gif

112 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

21 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagokiteboarder.com accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chicagokiteboarder.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chicagokiteboarder.com SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chicagokiteboarder.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 Chicagokiteboarder.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

chicagokiteboarder.com

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