Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

balletmaryland.org

Performing Arts | Ballet Theatre of Maryland | Annapolis

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

957 ms

Page Rendered

61 ms

balletmaryland.org screenshot

About Website

Visit balletmaryland.org now to see the best up-to-date Ballet Maryland content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about balletmaryland.org

The Ballet Theatre of Maryland is Maryland's premiere professional ballet company, offering high-caliber performances across Maryland. Enjoy full-length classical ballets, contemporary mixed repertoir...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balletmaryland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 1 sec 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

balletmaryland.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.balletmaryland.org

85 ms

minified.js

61 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

60 ms

polyfill.min.js

60 ms

js

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Balletmaryland.org, 36% (23 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 34% (22 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (349 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

778.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Balletmaryland.org main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 270.7 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 1.1 MB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 302.2 kB
  • After minification 259.6 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, Ballet Maryland needs image optimization as it can save up to 42.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 296.1 kB
  • After minification 296.1 kB
  • After compression 248.0 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 48.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballet Maryland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

balletmaryland.org accessibility score

97

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

balletmaryland.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balletmaryland.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 doesn't use 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 Balletmaryland.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 Balletmaryland.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 Ballet Maryland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: