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michiganavemag.com

Michigan Ave Magazine - Events, Style, Fine Dining & Culture

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

4.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

915 ms

michiganavemag.com screenshot

About Website

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Coverage of parties, restaurants, bars, fashion, and things to do in Chicago.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michiganavemag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.3 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

michiganavemag.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

michiganavemag.com

4263 ms

common.css

81 ms

mw.forms.css

96 ms

mw.windows.css

93 ms

mw.imged.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (113 requests) were addressed to the original Michiganavemag.com, 8% (11 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Michiganavemag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 498.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Michiganavemag.com main page is 7.7 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. 85% 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. Images take 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 100.3 kB
  • After minification 92.4 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 86.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 7.1 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. Michigan Ave Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 281.9 kB
  • After minification 253.8 kB
  • After compression 94.3 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 187.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Michiganavemag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (52%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michigan Ave Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Michiganavemag.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Michiganavemag.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 Michigan Ave Mag. 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: