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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

citz.co.uk

Citizens Theatre

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

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About Website

Visit citz.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Citz content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about citz.co.uk

The Citizens Theatre is based in Glasgow, Scotland and is the principal producing theatre in the west of Scotland. The theatre includes a 500-seat Main Auditorium, and two studio theatres, the Circle ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citz.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.8 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

citz.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.699

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1547 ms

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125 ms

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204 ms

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283 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Citz.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Citz.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

795.2 kB

After Optimization

651.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citz.co.uk main page is 795.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 604.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 4.3 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 23.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 604.6 kB
  • After minification 573.3 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. Citz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 125.9 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 61.2 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Citz.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (54%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1547 ms

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125 ms

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204 ms

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201 ms

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399 ms

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58 ms

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76 ms

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75 ms

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140 ms

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62 ms

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121 ms

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136 ms

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247 ms

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252 ms

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318 ms

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352 ms

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279 ms

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315 ms

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321 ms

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347 ms

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379 ms

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383 ms

icons_footer_rss.png

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387 ms

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29 ms

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29 ms

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29 ms

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Accessibility Review

citz.co.uk accessibility score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Best Practices

citz.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

citz.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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

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 Citz.co.uk 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 Citz.co.uk 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 Citz. 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: