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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

chicagounionstation.com

Chicago Union Station | A Valued Asset for Chicago’s Future

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

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

An iconic building and a marvel of modern transportation for nearly a century, Chicago’s Union Station was originally designed by Daniel Burnham and completed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White. A ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagounionstation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagounionstation.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagounionstation.com

24 ms

chicagounionstation.com

1264 ms

ikz3upn.js

41 ms

main-1b9abe3d60.css

27 ms

modernizr.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagounionstation.com, 25% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

411.0 kB

After Optimization

349.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Chicagounionstation.com main page is 411.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 330.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 81.0 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 62.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 330.0 kB
  • After minification 330.0 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 Union Station images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Union Station. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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24 ms

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chicagounionstation.com

1264 ms

ikz3upn.js

ikz3upn.js

41 ms

main-1b9abe3d60.css

main-1b9abe3d60.css

27 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

40 ms

js

js

178 ms

common-f32d6f8528.bundle.js

common-f32d6f8528.bundle.js

179 ms

main-3574ad84ca.bundle.js

main-3574ad84ca.bundle.js

183 ms

wallpaper.png

wallpaper.png

260 ms

icon-alerts.svg

icon-alerts.svg

260 ms

tab-navy.svg

tab-navy.svg

260 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

258 ms

tab-tan.svg

tab-tan.svg

260 ms

hero-top.svg

hero-top.svg

272 ms

logo-rules.svg

logo-rules.svg

274 ms

union-station-logo.svg

union-station-logo.svg

270 ms

nav-arrow.svg

nav-arrow.svg

272 ms

hero-top-border-alt.svg

hero-top-border-alt.svg

269 ms

label-art-light.svg

label-art-light.svg

273 ms

link-arrow-rust.svg

link-arrow-rust.svg

342 ms

footer-background.jpg

footer-background.jpg

339 ms

logo-union-station-small.svg

logo-union-station-small.svg

339 ms

label-art-dark.svg

label-art-dark.svg

340 ms

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84 ms

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119 ms

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119 ms

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186 ms

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150 ms

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151 ms

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5213 ms

ChicagoUnionStation_GreatHall_Flagship_e46dcd4e0857a7e5448cf85f2b649b6c.jpg

ChicagoUnionStation_GreatHall_Flagship_e46dcd4e0857a7e5448cf85f2b649b6c.jpg

119 ms

p.gif

p.gif

37 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagounionstation.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

chicagounionstation.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

SEO Factors

chicagounionstation.com SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Chicagounionstation.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 Chicagounionstation.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 Chicago Union Station. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: