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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

gatetheatre.ie

Gate Theatre Dublin

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatetheatre.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Gatetheatre.ie rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

gatetheatre.ie performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.28

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatetheatre.ie

285 ms

www.gatetheatre.ie

655 ms

default.css

283 ms

topnavlist.css

191 ms

menu.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Gatetheatre.ie, 6% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (741 ms) belongs to the original domain Gatetheatre.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.2 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

754.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatetheatre.ie main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 566.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 86.9 kB

  • Original 122.1 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 86.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 565.3 kB
  • After minification 517.5 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. Gate Theatre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 374.2 kB

  • Original 566.7 kB
  • After minification 517.2 kB
  • After compression 192.5 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 374.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 42.2 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Gatetheatre.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (51%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gate Theatre. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gatetheatre.ie

gatetheatre.ie

285 ms

www.gatetheatre.ie

www.gatetheatre.ie

655 ms

default.css

default.css

283 ms

topnavlist.css

topnavlist.css

191 ms

menu.css

menu.css

194 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

193 ms

dropdowndefault.css

dropdowndefault.css

195 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

272 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

validationEngine.jquery.css

289 ms

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

291 ms

jquery.validationEngine.js

jquery.validationEngine.js

467 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

magiczoomplus.css

magiczoomplus.css

290 ms

magiczoomplus.js

magiczoomplus.js

457 ms

easySlider1.7.js

easySlider1.7.js

371 ms

screen.css

screen.css

372 ms

highslide-with-gallery.js

highslide-with-gallery.js

658 ms

highslide.css

highslide.css

545 ms

Newsletter_GateBrochure.jpg

Newsletter_GateBrochure.jpg

281 ms

bg01.jpg

bg01.jpg

181 ms

gate.gif

gate.gif

182 ms

tickets.jpg

tickets.jpg

183 ms

contact.jpg

contact.jpg

184 ms

sbg.jpg

sbg.jpg

180 ms

go.jpg

go.jpg

182 ms

navDown.gif

navDown.gif

213 ms

ar.jpg

ar.jpg

213 ms

booknow.gif

booknow.gif

213 ms

moreinfo.gif

moreinfo.gif

214 ms

Juno_Poster_Image_sm.jpg

Juno_Poster_Image_sm.jpg

377 ms

Now_On___Earnest_sm_5.jpg

Now_On___Earnest_sm_5.jpg

299 ms

The_Gate_Theatre_Dublin_sm.jpg

The_Gate_Theatre_Dublin_sm.jpg

570 ms

gate02.gif

gate02.gif

292 ms

artcouncil_logo.gif

artcouncil_logo.gif

293 ms

FaceBook.png

FaceBook.png

293 ms

Twitter.png

Twitter.png

387 ms

banbg.jpg

banbg.jpg

376 ms

Now_on___Juno___no_dates.jpg

Now_on___Juno___no_dates.jpg

741 ms

Gift_Cert_banner.jpg

Gift_Cert_banner.jpg

566 ms

Placeholder_LightGrey.png

Placeholder_LightGrey.png

457 ms

bg02.jpg

bg02.jpg

651 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

35 ms

counter.8eb9e83b9fa0d4af1e4f.js

counter.8eb9e83b9fa0d4af1e4f.js

26 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

44 ms

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

33 ms

shares.json

shares.json

31 ms

collect

collect

63 ms

www.gatetheatre.ie

www.gatetheatre.ie

619 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

37 ms

glossy-dark.png

glossy-dark.png

97 ms

zoomout.cur

zoomout.cur

100 ms

loader.white.gif

loader.white.gif

100 ms

Accessibility Review

gatetheatre.ie accessibility score

75

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gatetheatre.ie 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gatetheatre.ie SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gatetheatre.ie 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 Gatetheatre.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gatetheatre.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gate Theatre. 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: