Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

illinoisfestivalguide.com

US Craft Events & Festivals Calendar | Browse Craft Events & Festivals of Illinois, United States

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

834 ms

Page Rendered

81 ms

illinoisfestivalguide.com screenshot

About Website

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Illinois Festival Guide provides information on upcoming craft shows, fairs and festival across the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinoisfestivalguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 915 ms 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

illinoisfestivalguide.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illinoisfestivalguide.com

136 ms

www.illinoisfestivalguide.com

474 ms

jquery-ui.css

43 ms

style.css

30 ms

jquery.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Illinoisfestivalguide.com, 24% (5 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (474 ms) belongs to the original domain Illinoisfestivalguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

293.1 kB

After Optimization

228.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Illinoisfestivalguide.com main page is 293.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 116.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 64.3 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 52.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 105.5 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. Illinois Festivalguide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 108.9 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 409 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Illinoisfestivalguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 409 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois Festivalguide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

illinoisfestivalguide.com accessibility score

86

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

illinoisfestivalguide.com best practices score

58

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

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

illinoisfestivalguide.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Illinoisfestivalguide.com 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 Illinoisfestivalguide.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 Illinois Festivalguide. 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: