Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

broadway.com

Broadway Tickets | Broadway Shows | Theater Tickets | Broadway.com

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

broadway.com screenshot

About Website

Visit broadway.com now to see the best up-to-date Broadway content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about broadway.com

The most comprehensive source for Broadway Shows, Broadway Tickets, Off-Broadway, London theater information, Tickets, Gift Certificates, Videos, News & Features, Reviews, Photos.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Broadway.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

broadway.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.broadway.com

24 ms

onyx-global.d50b38260da4.css

18 ms

slick.a0e33bd6828f.css

13 ms

carousel_themes.8885398d567f.css

12 ms

efd6orf.js

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 183 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Broadway.com, 43% (78 requests) were made to D2npu017ljjude.cloudfront.net and 12% (22 requests) were made to Ox-d.broadway.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.broadway.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (22%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Broadway.com main page is 5.2 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 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 247.9 kB

  • Original 284.5 kB
  • After minification 209.1 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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 75.4 kB, which is 27% 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 247.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Broadway images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 469.7 kB

  • Original 641.0 kB
  • After minification 591.4 kB
  • After compression 171.3 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 469.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 389.9 kB

  • Original 483.7 kB
  • After minification 472.3 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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. Broadway.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 389.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (34%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

111

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Broadway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

broadway.com accessibility score

88

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

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

broadway.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

broadway.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Broadway.com 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 Broadway.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 data is detected on the main page of Broadway. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: