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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

francesarcher.com

Home | Me & My Shadow - A Life in Chicago: Now and Then

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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A native Chicagoan shares memories and photos about Chicago individuals, events, and landmarks that you won't find in books.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Francesarcher.com page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 2.5 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

francesarcher.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

francesarcher.com

154 ms

francesarcher.com

809 ms

style.min.css

125 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

166 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Francesarcher.com, 23% (10 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn-images.mailchimp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (861 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

458.4 kB

After Optimization

334.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Francesarcher.com main page is 458.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 172.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 93.8 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 77.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 171.1 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. Francesarcher images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 92.0 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 79.5 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 12.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. Francesarcher.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.1 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Francesarcher. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

francesarcher.com

francesarcher.com

154 ms

francesarcher.com

francesarcher.com

809 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

125 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

166 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

168 ms

styles.css

styles.css

445 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

195 ms

style.css

style.css

248 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

191 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

326 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

225 ms

third-party.min.js

third-party.min.js

252 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

253 ms

general.min.js

general.min.js

285 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

312 ms

custom.css

custom.css

308 ms

slim-081711.css

slim-081711.css

10 ms

printfriendly.js

printfriendly.js

51 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

266 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

293 ms

index.js

index.js

431 ms

index.js

index.js

484 ms

e-202435.js

e-202435.js

13 ms

jetpack-carousel.min.js

jetpack-carousel.min.js

329 ms

slim-081711.css

slim-081711.css

11 ms

IMG_20190426_223926379-100x100.jpg

IMG_20190426_223926379-100x100.jpg

540 ms

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printfriendly-button.png

19 ms

IMG_5740-100x100.jpg

IMG_5740-100x100.jpg

497 ms

Soldier-Field-100x100.jpg

Soldier-Field-100x100.jpg

440 ms

northside-history-100x100.png

northside-history-100x100.png

521 ms

DSC0177-Von-Steuben-front-@72dpi-100x100.jpg

DSC0177-Von-Steuben-front-@72dpi-100x100.jpg

475 ms

IMG_5571-2-100x100.jpg

IMG_5571-2-100x100.jpg

430 ms

IMG_147811-100x100.jpg

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805 ms

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810 ms

IMG_14781-100x100.jpg

IMG_14781-100x100.jpg

861 ms

bryn_mawr9.jpg

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498 ms

header-v21.png

header-v21.png

124 ms

top-hats.jpg

top-hats.jpg

68 ms

woothemes.png

woothemes.png

72 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

173 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

a

a

100 ms

top-hats.jpg

top-hats.jpg

169 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

francesarcher.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

francesarcher.com best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

francesarcher.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Francesarcher.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 Francesarcher.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

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