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dev.builtinchicago.org

Chicago Startups | Built In Chicago

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

264 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dev.builtinchicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dev.builtinchicago.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dev.builtinchicago.org

2350 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

client:platform.js

54 ms

dc2948c4-cb80-4ab3-b5e7-d242504a2b45.js

103 ms

cdn_css_http_3f302814fd7af2ccbf1d5ef7aff1d74d.css

1398 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Dev.builtinchicago.org, 12% (6 requests) were made to Media5.cdn.dev.builtinchicago.org and 10% (5 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Media3.cdn.dev.builtinchicago.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

718.5 kB

After Optimization

539.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Dev.builtinchicago.org main page is 718.5 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 415.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 81.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 73.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 415.4 kB
  • After minification 392.5 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. Dev Built In Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 83.0 kB

  • Original 158.5 kB
  • After minification 158.5 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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 83.0 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 55.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dev Built In 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dev.builtinchicago.org SEO score

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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 Dev.builtinchicago.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 Dev.builtinchicago.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dev Built In Chicago. 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: