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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

chitwist.com

Chicago Party Balloons | Foam Party | Chicago Balloon Delivery and Decor | Chicago Balloon Art | Wedding Decor | Balloon Costumes | Event Decorations

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

961 ms

Page Rendered

737 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chitwist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chitwist.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chitwist.com

251 ms

css

78 ms

Layout.css

77 ms

normalize.css

128 ms

nav.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Chitwist.com, 12% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.curator.io and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (568 ms) belongs to the original domain Chitwist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chitwist.com main page is 5.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 10.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 177.4 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Chitwist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 291 B

  • Original 22.8 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Chitwist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (38%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chitwist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chitwist.com

chitwist.com

251 ms

css

css

78 ms

Layout.css

Layout.css

77 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

128 ms

nav.css

nav.css

129 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

76 ms

index.js

index.js

144 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

e4d5a3b2-e60d-4044-89dd-ea04b02a96df.js

e4d5a3b2-e60d-4044-89dd-ea04b02a96df.js

139 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

66 ms

ChiTwist_Menu_Image.png

ChiTwist_Menu_Image.png

80 ms

ChiTwist-Header-Image.jpg

ChiTwist-Header-Image.jpg

430 ms

Clemson-tigers-photo-frame-columns-balloon.jpg

Clemson-tigers-photo-frame-columns-balloon.jpg

487 ms

OOH-Foam-Parties-Chicago.jpg

OOH-Foam-Parties-Chicago.jpg

372 ms

Custom-print-stuffed-balloon-pole.jpg

Custom-print-stuffed-balloon-pole.jpg

535 ms

Cactus-Balloon-Column-Chicago-Bridal-Shower.jpg

Cactus-Balloon-Column-Chicago-Bridal-Shower.jpg

418 ms

Pretty-Jungle-dinosaur-theme-balloon-garland-porch.jpg

Pretty-Jungle-dinosaur-theme-balloon-garland-porch.jpg

438 ms

birthday-demi-arch-custom.jpg

birthday-demi-arch-custom.jpg

498 ms

Gold-Black-Silver-Crown-10th-Birthday-Balloon-Marquee.jpg

Gold-Black-Silver-Crown-10th-Birthday-Balloon-Marquee.jpg

542 ms

Pretty-in-Pink-garland-marquee-helium-bouquet-25th-birthday-balloon.jpg

Pretty-in-Pink-garland-marquee-helium-bouquet-25th-birthday-balloon.jpg

493 ms

Facebook.png

Facebook.png

508 ms

Instagram.png

Instagram.png

551 ms

YouTube.png

YouTube.png

556 ms

Twitter.png

Twitter.png

567 ms

Tik-Tok-Logo.png

Tik-Tok-Logo.png

568 ms

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u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkV2EH7alwUzuA_qNBQ.woff

34 ms

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u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkV2EH7ilwUzuA_qNBdS8.woff

92 ms

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u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkV2EH7mlwUzuA_qNBdS8.woff

189 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

js

js

68 ms

curator.embed.css

curator.embed.css

4 ms

e4d5a3b2-e60d-4044-89dd-ea04b02a96df.css

e4d5a3b2-e60d-4044-89dd-ea04b02a96df.css

40 ms

curator.embed.js

curator.embed.js

8 ms

Accessibility Review

chitwist.com accessibility score

79

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

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

chitwist.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chitwist.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chitwist.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 Chitwist.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

chitwist.com

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