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Report Summary

About Website

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.327

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value76.7 s

0/100

10%

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31 ms

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Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Discover.chicagotribune.com, 31% (30 requests) were made to Chicagotribune.com and 22% (21 requests) were made to Cdn59755463.blazingcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Discover.chicagotribune.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 814.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 228.6 kB

Original 272.3 kB
After minification 256.4 kB
After compression 43.6 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 228.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

Original 158.7 kB
After minification 155.1 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. Discover Chicago Tribune images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

Original 814.7 kB
After minification 814.7 kB
After compression 746.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

Original 188.3 kB
After minification 188.3 kB
After compression 185.5 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. Discover.chicagotribune.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Chicago Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Discover.chicagotribune.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 Discover.chicagotribune.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Discover Chicago Tribune. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook:

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Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

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Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

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