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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thechicagohost.org

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Page Load Speed

918 ms in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

637 ms

Page Rendered

118 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thechicagohost.org page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 755 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thechicagohost.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thechicagohost.org

163 ms

caf.js

27 ms

style.css

9 ms

style.css

10 ms

js3caf.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thechicagohost.org, 40% (4 requests) were made to D38psrni17bvxu.cloudfront.net and 30% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (191 ms) relates to the external source D1lxhc4jvstzrp.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

148.6 kB

After Optimization

130.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thechicagohost.org main page is 148.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 117.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 12.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 239 B

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.1 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. The Chicago HOST images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 112.1 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 152 B

  • Original 882 B
  • After minification 882 B
  • After compression 730 B

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. Thechicagohost.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Chicago HOST. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thechicagohost.org

thechicagohost.org

163 ms

caf.js

caf.js

27 ms

style.css

style.css

9 ms

style.css

style.css

10 ms

js3caf.js

js3caf.js

11 ms

namecheap1.svg

namecheap1.svg

191 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

179 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

95 ms

ads

ads

77 ms

caf.js

caf.js

26 ms

Accessibility Review

thechicagohost.org accessibility score

78

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.

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

thechicagohost.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thechicagohost.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Thechicagohost.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 Thechicagohost.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

thechicagohost.org

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