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bostonballet.com

Boston Ballet Tickets, Boston Ballet School, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen | Boston Ballet

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

622 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

237 ms

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About Website

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Boston Ballet’s internationally acclaimed repertoire ranges from classical works to Balanchine masterworks and world premieres by today’s finest choreographers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonballet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 622 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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622 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

72 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

92 ms

bb.css

134 ms

sifr.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonballet.com, 37% (18 requests) were made to Bostonballet.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Boxoffice.bostonballet.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) belongs to the original domain Bostonballet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

554.3 kB

After Optimization

359.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonballet.com main page is 554.3 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. Images take 324.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 3.4 kB, which is 14% 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 18.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 324.0 kB
  • After minification 271.1 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, Boston Ballet needs image optimization as it can save up to 52.8 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 70.7 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 138.2 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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 70.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Bostonballet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (34%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Ballet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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622 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

72 ms

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92 ms

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SEO Factors

bostonballet.com SEO score

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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 Bostonballet.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 Bostonballet.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boston Ballet. 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: