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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

direct.broadwayworld.com

BroadwayWorld: Latest News, Videos & Tickets from Broadway

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

928 ms

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

direct.broadwayworld.com screenshot

About Website

Visit direct.broadwayworld.com now to see the best up-to-date Direct Broadway World content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about direct.broadwayworld.com

Your guide to all things theatre on Broadway and around the world including shows, news, reviews, broadway tickets, regional theatre and more.

Visit direct.broadwayworld.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Direct.broadwayworld.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 2.6 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

direct.broadwayworld.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

direct.broadwayworld.com

41 ms

direct.broadwayworld.com

38 ms

www.broadwayworld.com

675 ms

gppstub.js

96 ms

boise.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Direct.broadwayworld.com, 47% (9 requests) were made to Broadwayworld.com and 16% (3 requests) were made to Cloudimages.broadwayworld.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (675 ms) relates to the external source Broadwayworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.5 kB (38%)

Content Size

987.5 kB

After Optimization

612.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Direct.broadwayworld.com main page is 987.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 479.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 375.2 kB

  • Original 423.2 kB
  • After minification 423.2 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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 375.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 479.0 kB
  • After minification 479.0 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. Direct Broadway World images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 229 B

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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 12 (75%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Broadway World. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

direct.broadwayworld.com

direct.broadwayworld.com

41 ms

direct.broadwayworld.com

direct.broadwayworld.com

38 ms

www.broadwayworld.com

www.broadwayworld.com

675 ms

gppstub.js

gppstub.js

96 ms

boise.js

boise.js

75 ms

abilene.js

abilene.js

75 ms

tulsa.js

tulsa.js

74 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

139 ms

connatix.player.js

connatix.player.js

99 ms

lazy_load.js

lazy_load.js

73 ms

ccpaplus.js

ccpaplus.js

131 ms

Search-icon.svg

Search-icon.svg

83 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

69 ms

jquery-min.js

jquery-min.js

116 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

128 ms

Video-Aaron-Lazar-1723020347.jpg

Video-Aaron-Lazar-1723020347.jpg

54 ms

Video-Aaron-Lazar-1723020347.jpg

Video-Aaron-Lazar-1723020347.jpg

50 ms

screx.js

screx.js

22 ms

css_onload.js

css_onload.js

18 ms

Accessibility Review

direct.broadwayworld.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

direct.broadwayworld.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

direct.broadwayworld.com 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 Direct.broadwayworld.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 Direct.broadwayworld.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

direct.broadwayworld.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Direct Broadway World. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: