Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

theatreindc.com

Theatre In DC - Your Source For Plays In DC - DC Plays

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

929 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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About Website

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

Theatre In DC is your source for whats on stage in DC. It includes a comprehensive list of plays in the DC area theaters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theatreindc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theatreindc.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theatreindc.com

209 ms

www.theatreindc.com

244 ms

tic_styles.css

85 ms

ui.all.css

94 ms

jquery-1.3.1.js

270 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Theatreindc.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (407 ms) belongs to the original domain Theatreindc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 524.5 kB (67%)

Content Size

787.4 kB

After Optimization

262.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Theatreindc.com main page is 787.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 599.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 6.0 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 34.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 99 B

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 110.4 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. Theatre In DC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 459.5 kB

  • Original 599.8 kB
  • After minification 457.8 kB
  • After compression 140.3 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 459.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Theatreindc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (68%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theatre In DC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theatreindc.com accessibility score

95

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

theatreindc.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theatreindc.com SEO score

87

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

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 Theatreindc.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 Theatreindc.com 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

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