Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

selfdesignchicago.com

Psychotherapy so you can be who you want to be. - Self Design

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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About Website

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Self Design is a group psychotherapy practice that provides individual counseling by experienced licensed clinicians in the Loop and Evanston.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selfdesignchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

selfdesignchicago.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

selfdesignchicago.com

149 ms

www.selfdesignchicago.com

1970 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

70 ms

style.min.css

138 ms

styles.css

438 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Selfdesignchicago.com, 19% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 16% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Selfdesignchicago.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

355.4 kB

After Optimization

312.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Selfdesignchicago.com main page is 355.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 157.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 14.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 70.5 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. Self Design Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 157.7 kB
  • After minification 157.7 kB
  • After compression 152.4 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. Selfdesignchicago.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (64%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Self Design 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

selfdesignchicago.com accessibility score

80

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

selfdesignchicago.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

selfdesignchicago.com SEO score

93

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

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 Selfdesignchicago.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 Selfdesignchicago.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 data is detected on the main page of Self Design Chicago. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: