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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

chicagohistoryfair.org

Chicago Metro History Day

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

567 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

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About Website

Visit chicagohistoryfair.org now to see the best up-to-date Chicago History Fair content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chicagohistoryfair.org

Chicago Metro History Day, formerly known as Chicago Metro History Fair, is a project-based inquiry program for Chicagoland students. We partner with Illinois History Day and NHD to help students make...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagohistoryfair.org page load time and found that the first response time was 567 ms and then it took 3.7 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

chicagohistoryfair.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagohistoryfair.org

567 ms

modal.css

73 ms

mootools.js

216 ms

caption.js

731 ms

modal.js

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagohistoryfair.org, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Chicagohistoryfair.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 240.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

934.3 kB

After Optimization

693.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagohistoryfair.org main page is 934.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 652.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 48.2 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 37.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 652.4 kB
  • After minification 614.4 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. Chicago History Fair images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 174.3 kB
  • After minification 163.9 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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 116.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Chicagohistoryfair.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (28%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

47

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago History Fair. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chicagohistoryfair.org

chicagohistoryfair.org

567 ms

modal.css

modal.css

73 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

216 ms

caption.js

caption.js

731 ms

modal.js

modal.js

145 ms

slideshow.js

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1735 ms

template_css.css

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1743 ms

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2737 ms

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226 ms

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284 ms

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285 ms

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355 ms

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356 ms

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426 ms

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497 ms

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498 ms

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568 ms

mootools.bgiframe.js

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568 ms

CP_EN_BL_S_001.gif

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89 ms

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23 ms

blank.gif

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635 ms

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846 ms

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776 ms

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859 ms

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987 ms

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999 ms

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988 ms

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teacher%20workshops%20button.jpg

1058 ms

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1130 ms

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1071 ms

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1128 ms

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1141 ms

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1200 ms

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1212 ms

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1270 ms

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1271 ms

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1143 ms

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1086 ms

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1143 ms

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1074 ms

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1084 ms

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1141 ms

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74 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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75 ms

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144 ms

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140 ms

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9 ms

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136 ms

collect

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10 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagohistoryfair.org accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

chicagohistoryfair.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chicagohistoryfair.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 Chicagohistoryfair.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 Chicagohistoryfair.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

chicagohistoryfair.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chicago History Fair. 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: