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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

chitownreview.com

Independent Chicago News & Marketplace- Chi-Town Review

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chitownreview.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chitownreview.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.39

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chitownreview.com

1901 ms

www.chitownreview.com

144 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

28 ms

widget.css

49 ms

style.min.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Chitownreview.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Chitownreview.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chitownreview.com main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 72.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Chi Town Review images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 165.9 kB

  • Original 367.5 kB
  • After minification 367.4 kB
  • After compression 201.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 165.9 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 82.4 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. Chitownreview.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (63%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chi Town Review. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chitownreview.com

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1901 ms

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144 ms

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Accessibility Review

chitownreview.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

chitownreview.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chitownreview.com SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Chitownreview.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 Chitownreview.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

chitownreview.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Chi Town Review. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: