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chicagobluesguide.com

Home | Chicago Blues Guide - Your Complete Guide to the Chicago Blues Scene

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

925 ms

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit chicagobluesguide.com now to see the best up-to-date Chicago Blues Guide content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chicagobluesguide.com

Our mission is to promote and preserve Chicago’s blues music and to connect with blues fans all over the world. Our Guide section helps visitors plan their trip to hear the blues when they come to Swe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagobluesguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagobluesguide.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagobluesguide.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (432 ms) belongs to the original domain Chicagobluesguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chicagobluesguide.com main page is 2.9 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 44.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 322.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, Chicago Blues Guide needs image optimization as it can save up to 322.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Blues Guide. 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

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SEO Factors

chicagobluesguide.com SEO score

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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 Chicagobluesguide.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 Chicagobluesguide.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

chicagobluesguide.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chicago Blues Guide. 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: