Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

fergusoncenter.org

Ferguson Center for the Arts

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ferguson Center content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fergusoncenter.org

Ferguson Center for the Arts is the premiere venue for musical, ballet and theatrical productions. Located in Newport News, Virginia at Christopher Newport University.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fergusoncenter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fergusoncenter.org performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fergusoncenter.org

2711 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

11 ms

fergusoncenter.org

420 ms

css

36 ms

css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Fergusoncenter.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org and 3% (3 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Fergusoncenter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (62%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

634.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Fergusoncenter.org main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 704.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 83.2 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. 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 73.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 313.7 kB

  • Original 704.0 kB
  • After minification 390.4 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. Obviously, Ferguson Center needs image optimization as it can save up to 313.7 kB or 45% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 428.0 kB

  • Original 620.0 kB
  • After minification 602.1 kB
  • After compression 192.1 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 428.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 234.3 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 247.2 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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. Fergusoncenter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 234.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ferguson Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fergusoncenter.org accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

fergusoncenter.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fergusoncenter.org SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fergusoncenter.org 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 Fergusoncenter.org 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 Ferguson Center. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: