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search.chicagobusiness.com

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Page Load Speed

167 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

143 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.chicagobusiness.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 143 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.chicagobusiness.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.chicagobusiness.com

24 ms

www.chicagobusiness.com

32 ms

v1

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Search.chicagobusiness.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (40 ms) relates to the external source Chicagobusiness.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Search.chicagobusiness.com main page is 2.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 8.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Search Chicago Business images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 261.1 kB
  • After minification 259.1 kB
  • After compression 256.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 99.9 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. Search.chicagobusiness.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Chicago Business. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

search.chicagobusiness.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 Search.chicagobusiness.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 Search.chicagobusiness.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Search Chicago Business. 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: