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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

explorechicago.org

Chicago Things to Do, Events, Restaurants, Hotels & Vacation Planning

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

590 ms

explorechicago.org screenshot

About Website

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

Explore the official tourism website for Chicago. Find guides to attractions, events, restaurants, hotels, getting around and other vacation planning help.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explorechicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explorechicago.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.166

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.choosechicago.com

302 ms

jquery.min.js

126 ms

js

145 ms

jquery-ui.css

125 ms

plugins.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 213 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Explorechicago.org, 22% (46 requests) were made to Choosechicago.com and 15% (33 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (703 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (20%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Explorechicago.org main page is 7.8 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. 85% 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 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 280.7 kB

  • Original 330.1 kB
  • After minification 258.0 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 72.1 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 280.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 110.5 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Explore Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 856.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 445.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 856.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 301.6 kB

  • Original 357.2 kB
  • After minification 306.8 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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. Explorechicago.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 301.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (34%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

134

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

explorechicago.org accessibility score

89

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

explorechicago.org 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

explorechicago.org 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Explorechicago.org 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 Explorechicago.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

explorechicago.org

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