Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

thecity.mx

Official Mexico City Visitors' Guide | Guía oficial para turistas de la CDMX

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

865 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thecity.mx homepage info - get ready to check The City best content right away, or after learning these important things about thecity.mx

Official bilingual visitors & travel guide to Mexico City. | La guía oficial y más completa de turismo y viajes de la CDMX.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecity.mx page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecity.mx performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecity.mx

149 ms

thecity.mx

276 ms

mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx

617 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

172 ms

style.min.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thecity.mx, 72% (76 requests) were made to Mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx and 14% (15 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (8%)

Content Size

18.9 MB

After Optimization

17.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecity.mx main page is 18.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 17.3 kB, which is 25% 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 58.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 18.3 MB
  • After minification 17.2 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. The City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 186.2 kB

  • Original 278.0 kB
  • After minification 278.0 kB
  • After compression 91.8 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 186.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 221.7 kB

  • Original 270.7 kB
  • After minification 270.7 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Thecity.mx needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (45%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The City. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecity.mx accessibility score

78

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

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

thecity.mx best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

thecity.mx SEO score

93

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

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 Thecity.mx 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 Thecity.mx 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 The City. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: