Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

chicagotribute.org

Chicago Tribute Markers of Distinction

Page Load Speed

840 ms in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

514 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagotribute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 614 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagotribute.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagotribute.org

226 ms

Marx%20Brothers%205%20portrait.jpg

145 ms

Bowen.tif

146 ms

TribLogo.jpg

216 ms

Wells%20portrait.jpg

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Chicagotribute.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) belongs to the original domain Chicagotribute.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

155.4 kB

After Optimization

145.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Chicagotribute.org main page is 155.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 146.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 6.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 146.4 kB
  • After minification 142.7 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 Tribute images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Tribute. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

chicagotribute.org accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chicagotribute.org best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chicagotribute.org SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chicagotribute.org 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 Chicagotribute.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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