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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

downtownevanston.org

Where Chicago and the North Shore Meet | Downtown Evanston

Page Load Speed

955 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

616 ms

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Visit downtownevanston.org now to see the best up-to-date Downtown Evanston content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about downtownevanston.org

Downtown Evanston, created in 1987, provides marketing and management services to the downtown Evanston, Illinois district.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downtownevanston.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 940 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downtownevanston.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downtownevanston.org

15 ms

downtownevanston.org

95 ms

bootstrap.min.css

7 ms

downtown-evanston-d55644cbf25a43e83022cd886f3da325.css

18 ms

font-awesome.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Downtownevanston.org, 21% (7 requests) were made to Fabrica-production.s3.amazonaws.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (289 ms) relates to the external source Fabrica-production.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 560.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Downtownevanston.org main page is 3.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.3 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 534.5 kB

  • Original 3.0 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, Downtown Evanston needs image optimization as it can save up to 534.5 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 77.5 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.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 36.8 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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. Downtownevanston.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downtown Evanston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

downtownevanston.org

downtownevanston.org

15 ms

downtownevanston.org

downtownevanston.org

95 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

7 ms

downtown-evanston-d55644cbf25a43e83022cd886f3da325.css

downtown-evanston-d55644cbf25a43e83022cd886f3da325.css

18 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

24 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

30 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

22 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

28 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

28 ms

application.js

application.js

27 ms

element.js

element.js

93 ms

css

css

28 ms

css

css

59 ms

xqx5den.css

xqx5den.css

102 ms

Downtown_Evanston.js

Downtown_Evanston.js

63 ms

p.css

p.css

33 ms

637329090

637329090

182 ms

dte-logo.png

dte-logo.png

63 ms

Downtown_looking_north_at_dusk-FOR_HOME_PAGE.jpg

Downtown_looking_north_at_dusk-FOR_HOME_PAGE.jpg

231 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

Map_Header.jpeg

Map_Header.jpeg

138 ms

Eatanddrink_Website.jpg

Eatanddrink_Website.jpg

124 ms

ShopLocal_Website.jpg

ShopLocal_Website.jpg

124 ms

UpcomingEvents_Winter_Website.jpg

UpcomingEvents_Winter_Website.jpg

123 ms

InsidersGuide.jpg

InsidersGuide.jpg

153 ms

DTE-S_mores_on_the_Square_FB-EventCoverImage.png

DTE-S_mores_on_the_Square_FB-EventCoverImage.png

289 ms

d

d

49 ms

d

d

68 ms

d

d

79 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

81 ms

1314059227-a863f09fc664aee919fb5ad17c7abbdb27571e72bdd1ff49b330beb6f1aff01a-d

1314059227-a863f09fc664aee919fb5ad17c7abbdb27571e72bdd1ff49b330beb6f1aff01a-d

70 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

collect

collect

39 ms

js

js

67 ms

Accessibility Review

downtownevanston.org accessibility score

90

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

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

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

downtownevanston.org best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

downtownevanston.org SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Downtownevanston.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 Downtownevanston.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

downtownevanston.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Downtown Evanston. 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: