Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

plantchicago.org

Sustainability | Plant Chicago | United States

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

3.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

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Plant Chicago has centuries of combined experience building, teaching and cultivating local circular economies. Together, we’re working to change the way we, as a city, think about our food and our en...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plantchicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 3.5 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plantchicago.org performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plantchicago.org

3511 ms

css

69 ms

main-546640b55f.css

108 ms

jquery.js

120 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Plantchicago.org, 19% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Plantchicago.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 272.2 kB (54%)

Content Size

505.4 kB

After Optimization

233.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Plantchicago.org main page is 505.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 194.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 102.4 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 80.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 121.0 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. Plant Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 194.5 kB
  • After minification 194.5 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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 115.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 87.4 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. Plantchicago.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (40%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

plantchicago.org accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

plantchicago.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

plantchicago.org SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Plantchicago.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 Plantchicago.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

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