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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

blog.thechicagoschool.edu

Welcome to The Chicago School | Formerly The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

820 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Blog The Chicago School content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blog.thechicagoschool.edu

The Chicago School offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in psychology, counseling, and more online and in Chicago, California, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.thechicagoschool.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.thechicagoschool.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,060 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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56 ms

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92 ms

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57 ms

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Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.thechicagoschool.edu, 86% (134 requests) were made to Thechicagoschool.edu and 4% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (739 ms) relates to the external source Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.thechicagoschool.edu main page is 2.6 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. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 164.8 kB

  • Original 210.1 kB
  • After minification 210.1 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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 164.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Blog The Chicago School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 688 B

  • Original 281.2 kB
  • After minification 281.2 kB
  • After compression 280.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 109 B

  • Original 210.2 kB
  • After minification 210.2 kB
  • After compression 210.1 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. Blog.thechicagoschool.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (56%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog The Chicago School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blog.thechicagoschool.edu accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

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

blog.thechicagoschool.edu 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.thechicagoschool.edu SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Blog.thechicagoschool.edu 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 Blog.thechicagoschool.edu 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

blog.thechicagoschool.edu

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