Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thegwenchicago.com

A Luxury Collection Hotel in Downtown Chicago | The Gwen

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

371 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegwenchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 371 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegwenchicago.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegwenchicago.com

371 ms

gtm.js

172 ms

cmk3tzi.css

121 ms

autoptimize_07d382430ebd77b4c3a88439d2eb9e02.css

61 ms

autoptimize_single_2f68de93c23a0dbd419fb89ddb532f13.js

343 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Thegwenchicago.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (594 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegwenchicago.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thegwenchicago.com main page is 1.6 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. 75% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 81.5 kB

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 81.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. The Gwen Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 591 B

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 96.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 42.6 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. Thegwenchicago.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (56%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gwen 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thegwenchicago.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

thegwenchicago.com best practices score

77

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thegwenchicago.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thegwenchicago.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 Thegwenchicago.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 The Gwen Chicago. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: