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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blairthomas.org

Staff - Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Blairthomas content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blairthomas.org

Blair Thomas has twice earned the highest international honor for creators of original work in the medium, the UNIMA Excellence in Puppetry Award.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blairthomas.org page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blairthomas.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

86 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

44 ms

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

43 ms

widget-base.min.css

59 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blairthomas.org, 26% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Webcomponents.spektrix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

481.0 kB

After Optimization

360.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Blairthomas.org main page is 481.0 kB. 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. Images take 305.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 118.9 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 141.1 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 118.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 305.4 kB
  • After minification 305.4 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. Blairthomas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (86%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blairthomas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

86 ms

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tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

44 ms

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

43 ms

widget-base.min.css

widget-base.min.css

59 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

45 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

53 ms

header-footer.min.css

header-footer.min.css

64 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

118 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

68 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

76 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

84 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

100 ms

variables-skeleton.min.css

variables-skeleton.min.css

95 ms

variables-full.min.css

variables-full.min.css

95 ms

events-virtual-single-block.min.css

events-virtual-single-block.min.css

113 ms

style.css

style.css

120 ms

css

css

48 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

131 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

webcomponents-loader.js

27 ms

spektrix-component-loader.js

spektrix-component-loader.js

31 ms

integrate.js

integrate.js

177 ms

js

js

58 ms

widget-nav-menu.min.css

widget-nav-menu.min.css

122 ms

hello-frontend.min.js

hello-frontend.min.js

226 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

145 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

134 ms

jquery.sticky.min.js

jquery.sticky.min.js

150 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

154 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

161 ms

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webpack.runtime.min.js

158 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

201 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

222 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

221 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

220 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

222 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

223 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

236 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

223 ms

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webcomponents-lite.js

7 ms

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453 ms

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125 ms

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pescador.jpg

126 ms

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125 ms

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11 ms

Accessibility Review

blairthomas.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blairthomas.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

SEO Factors

blairthomas.org SEO score

100

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

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 Blairthomas.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 Blairthomas.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

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