Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

metropolisarts.com

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre | Arlington Heights, IL

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

536 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Visit metropolisarts.com now to see the best up-to-date Metropolis Arts content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about metropolisarts.com

Metropolis is one of the Northwest suburb’s leading venues for quality entertainment ranging from a Main Stage subscription series to rock, country, comedy, and cabaret concerts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metropolisarts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metropolisarts.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metropolisarts.com

65 ms

www.metropolisarts.com

55 ms

1d6a6a2912d50d0b6c46625722ec5389.css

39 ms

js

262 ms

jquery.min.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Metropolisarts.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (276 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (26%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Metropolisarts.com main page is 4.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 167.7 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 1.2 MB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Metropolis Arts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 414.8 kB
  • After minification 414.8 kB
  • After compression 411.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 141 B

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Metropolisarts.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (19%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metropolis Arts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metropolisarts.com accessibility score

93

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

metropolisarts.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

metropolisarts.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Metropolisarts.com 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 Metropolisarts.com 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 Metropolis Arts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: