Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

festival.dcshorts.com

DC Shorts Film Festival - Washington, DC - September 11–18

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

960 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

festival.dcshorts.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Festival DC Shorts content for Kenya. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about festival.dcshorts.com

The 5th Annual DC Shorts Film Festival, September 11-18, 2008, celebrating short films from around the corner and across the globe

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Key Findings

We analyzed Festival.dcshorts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 960 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

festival.dcshorts.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

festival.dcshorts.com

960 ms

13993e96-776d-4974-8d2c-3cbacbb08bcc.js

89 ms

stylesub.css

119 ms

style.css

138 ms

custom.bootstrap.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Festival.dcshorts.com, 19% (19 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 4% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (960 ms) belongs to the original domain Festival.dcshorts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Festival.dcshorts.com main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 61.4 kB
  • After minification 60.7 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 48.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 674.6 kB
  • After minification 668.6 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. Festival DC Shorts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 757.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 377.6 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 757.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 284.6 kB

  • Original 330.1 kB
  • After minification 304.3 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. Festival.dcshorts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 284.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (77%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Festival DC Shorts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

festival.dcshorts.com accessibility score

86

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

festival.dcshorts.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

festival.dcshorts.com SEO score

86

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Festival.dcshorts.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Festival.dcshorts.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 Festival DC Shorts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: