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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sigtheatre.org

Home — Signature Theatre

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

697 ms

Page Rendered

281 ms

About Website

Visit sigtheatre.org now to see the best up-to-date Sig Theatre content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sigtheatre.org

Tony Award®-winning professional theatre in Arlington, VA producing world premiere and reinvented musicals and plays.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sigtheatre.org page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 978 ms 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

sigtheatre.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,890 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sigtheatre.org

40 ms

www.sigtheatre.org

36 ms

gtm.js

303 ms

style.min.css

12 ms

modernizr.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Sigtheatre.org, 18% (12 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 12% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (419 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sigtheatre.org main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 89.3 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.6 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 66.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • 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. Sig Theatre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 164.1 kB
  • After minification 163.9 kB
  • After compression 162.9 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Sigtheatre.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (52%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sig 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sigtheatre.org accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sigtheatre.org 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sigtheatre.org SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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