Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

wchicago-lakeshore.com

Hotel in Chicago, Illinois | W Chicago - Lakeshore

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

wchicago-lakeshore.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wchicago-lakeshore.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 6.4 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

wchicago-lakeshore.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value53.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wchicago-lakeshore.com

190 ms

www.wchicago-lakeshore.com

171 ms

normalize.css

60 ms

lps.css

101 ms

whotels.css

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Wchicago-lakeshore.com, 23% (36 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 13% (20 requests) were made to Assets.wchicago-lakeshore.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Assets.wchicago-lakeshore.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (8%)

Content Size

21.6 MB

After Optimization

19.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Wchicago-lakeshore.com main page is 21.6 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. 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 19.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 338.3 kB

  • Original 388.6 kB
  • After minification 342.4 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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 46.2 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 338.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 137.4 kB

  • Original 19.4 MB
  • After minification 19.2 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. W Chicago Lakeshore images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 536.7 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 1.1 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 218.8 kB
  • After minification 204.1 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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. Wchicago-lakeshore.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 187.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (55%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of W Chicago Lakeshore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wchicago-lakeshore.com accessibility score

74

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

wchicago-lakeshore.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

wchicago-lakeshore.com SEO score

77

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wchicago-lakeshore.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Wchicago-lakeshore.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 W Chicago Lakeshore. 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: