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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

americantheater.org

AMERICAN THEATRE | The national magazine for the American not-for-profit theatre

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

700 ms

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About Website

Welcome to americantheater.org homepage info - get ready to check AMERICAN Theater best content right away, or after learning these important things about americantheater.org

American Theatre provides news, features, artist interviews, and editorials about theatre in the US and abroad.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americantheater.org page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 2.2 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

americantheater.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.518

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americantheater.org

97 ms

americantheatre.org

172 ms

www.americantheatre.org

342 ms

css2

52 ms

functions.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Americantheater.org, 67% (60 requests) were made to Americantheatre.org and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (342 ms) relates to the external source Americantheatre.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americantheater.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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 88.2 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 105.9 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 88.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. AMERICAN Theater images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 157.3 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 150.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 138.9 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 127.5 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. Americantheater.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (74%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AMERICAN Theater. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americantheater.org

americantheater.org

97 ms

americantheatre.org

americantheatre.org

172 ms

www.americantheatre.org

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342 ms

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52 ms

functions.js

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36 ms

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Accessibility Review

americantheater.org accessibility score

76

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

americantheater.org best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americantheater.org 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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americantheater.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 Americantheater.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

americantheater.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of AMERICAN Theater. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: