Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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About Website

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Formerly John Hancock Observatory. Enjoy 360° views from 1,000 feet above Lake Michigan and Chicago's famed Magnificent Mile®.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hancock-observatory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hancock-observatory.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hancock-observatory.com

176 ms

jhochicago.com

92 ms

www.jhochicago.com

189 ms

www.360chicago.com

372 ms

main.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hancock-observatory.com, 74% (51 requests) were made to 360chicago.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) relates to the external source 360chicago.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.2 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Hancock-observatory.com main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 5.8 kB, which is 28% 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 16.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Hancock Observatory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 254.4 kB

  • Original 410.2 kB
  • After minification 408.5 kB
  • After compression 155.8 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 254.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 273.5 kB

  • Original 325.0 kB
  • After minification 299.4 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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. Hancock-observatory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 273.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (49%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hancock Observatory. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hancock-observatory.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hancock-observatory.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Hancock-observatory.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hancock Observatory. 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: