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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

viachicago.org

Forums - Via Chicago

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

466 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

viachicago.org screenshot

About Website

Visit viachicago.org now to see the best up-to-date Via Chicago content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about viachicago.org

Welcome to Via Chicago, an online Wilco fan community since 2001. You'll come for the music, but you'll stay for the friendships!

Visit viachicago.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Viachicago.org page load time and found that the first response time was 466 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

viachicago.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

viachicago.org

466 ms

css

35 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css

395 ms

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css

199 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Viachicago.org, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (564 ms) belongs to the original domain Viachicago.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (75%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

406.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Viachicago.org main page is 1.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.0 kB, which is 12% 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 57.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 31.7 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. Obviously, Via Chicago needs image optimization as it can save up to 43.5 kB or 58% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 788.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 293.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 788.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 326.8 kB

  • Original 398.0 kB
  • After minification 371.5 kB
  • After compression 71.2 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. Viachicago.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 326.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Via 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

viachicago.org

viachicago.org

466 ms

css

css

35 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css

395 ms

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css

199 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

201 ms

5a0da001ccc2200dc5625c3f3934497d_core_responsive.css

5a0da001ccc2200dc5625c3f3934497d_core_responsive.css

151 ms

62e269ced0fdab7e30e026f1d30ae516_forums.css

62e269ced0fdab7e30e026f1d30ae516_forums.css

201 ms

76e62c573090645fb99a15a363d8620e_forums_responsive.css

76e62c573090645fb99a15a363d8620e_forums_responsive.css

153 ms

258adbb6e4f3e83cd3b355f84e3fa002_custom.css

258adbb6e4f3e83cd3b355f84e3fa002_custom.css

256 ms

icon

icon

51 ms

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254 ms

root_library.js

root_library.js

466 ms

root_js_lang_1.js

root_js_lang_1.js

342 ms

root_framework.js

root_framework.js

530 ms

global_global_core.js

global_global_core.js

302 ms

root_front.js

root_front.js

528 ms

front_front_core.js

front_front_core.js

352 ms

front_front_forum.js

front_front_forum.js

465 ms

root_map.js

root_map.js

529 ms

photo-4.jpg

photo-4.jpg

528 ms

photo-thumb-247.jpg

photo-thumb-247.jpg

529 ms

photo-thumb-35364.jpg

photo-thumb-35364.jpg

529 ms

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533 ms

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533 ms

photo-thumb-25086.jpg

photo-thumb-25086.jpg

564 ms

photo-thumb-22337.jpg

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564 ms

photo-thumb-261.jpg

photo-thumb-261.jpg

564 ms

css

css

18 ms

maintitle.png

maintitle.png

153 ms

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154 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

44 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

69 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc-.woff

81 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc-.woff

81 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

118 ms

Accessibility Review

viachicago.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

viachicago.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

viachicago.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Viachicago.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 Viachicago.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

viachicago.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Via Chicago. 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: