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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

danceworkschicago.org

DanceWorks Chicago | Chicago Dance Company | Classes & Workshops

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

405 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Dance Works Chicago content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about danceworkschicago.org

DanceWorks Chicago is dance company committed to developing early-career artists and promoting the artistic growth and excellence of a diverse group of dancers and choreographers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Danceworkschicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 405 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

danceworkschicago.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.danceworkschicago.org

405 ms

divi-widgets.css

114 ms

style.min.css

179 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

141 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Danceworkschicago.org, 69% (70 requests) were made to Eadn-wc02-7221626.nxedge.io and 20% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (689 ms) relates to the external source Eadn-wc02-7221626.nxedge.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Danceworkschicago.org main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 92.0 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 72.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Dance Works Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 76.6 kB
  • After minification 76.6 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 32.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 64.6 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Danceworkschicago.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (49%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dance Works Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

danceworkschicago.org accessibility score

67

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

danceworkschicago.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

danceworkschicago.org SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

danceworkschicago.org

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