Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cps.edu

Chicago Public Schools

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

869 ms

Page Rendered

297 ms

cps.edu screenshot

About Website

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Chicago Public Schools is committed to providing a high-quality education to all students, and preparing them for success in college, career, and civic life.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cps.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cps.edu performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,400 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cps.edu

83 ms

home.aspx

216 ms

controls.css

51 ms

core.css

95 ms

bootstrap.min.css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Cps.edu, 17% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (331 ms) belongs to the original domain Cps.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Cps.edu main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 59.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 966.6 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. Cps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 556.1 kB

  • Original 880.4 kB
  • After minification 783.9 kB
  • After compression 324.2 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 556.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 373.4 kB

  • Original 456.5 kB
  • After minification 430.0 kB
  • After compression 83.1 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. Cps.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 373.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (50%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cps.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cps.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

cps.edu SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Cps.edu 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 Cps.edu 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

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