Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

orchardtheatre.co.uk

Orchard West & Orchard Theatre | Book tickets

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

orchardtheatre.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Orchard Theatre content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about orchardtheatre.co.uk

Orchard West in Dartford is the home to the Orchard Theatre programme before September 2024: the only official site to buy tickets.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Orchardtheatre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

orchardtheatre.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.135

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

orchardtheatre.co.uk

109 ms

Online

26 ms

953 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

115 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Orchardtheatre.co.uk, 35% (33 requests) were made to Hqtheatres.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Hqtheatres.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 942.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Orchardtheatre.co.uk main page is 5.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 150.9 kB
  • After minification 134.3 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 16.6 kB, which is 11% 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 129.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 199.7 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Orchard Theatre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 407.9 kB

  • Original 563.1 kB
  • After minification 460.7 kB
  • After compression 155.2 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 407.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 205.4 kB

  • Original 239.9 kB
  • After minification 180.9 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. Orchardtheatre.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 205.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (45%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Orchard 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

orchardtheatre.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

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

orchardtheatre.co.uk 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

orchardtheatre.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Orchardtheatre.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 Orchardtheatre.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Orchard 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: