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chicagoreader.com

Chicago Reader

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagoreader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 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

chicagoreader.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

chicagoreader.com

150 ms

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203 ms

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120 ms

defaults.css

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components.css

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Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagoreader.com, 7% (11 requests) were made to Media1.fdncms.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Acuityplatform.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source T.trackedlink.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (54%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagoreader.com main page is 4.1 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 285.8 kB

  • Original 341.2 kB
  • After minification 308.9 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 285.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 999.3 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 Reader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 736.8 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 1.2 MB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 663.8 kB

  • Original 774.5 kB
  • After minification 607.8 kB
  • After compression 110.7 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. Chicagoreader.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 663.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (59%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Reader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

chicagoreader.com SEO score

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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 Chicagoreader.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 Chicagoreader.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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