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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ridinglights.org

Riding Lights Theatre Company — Theatre Gets Everywhere

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ridinglights.org homepage info - get ready to check Riding Lights best content right away, or after learning these important things about ridinglights.org

A national touring theatre company with a home at Friargate Theatre in York. Riding Lights creates unforgettable, entertaining theatre which challenges us all to examine the world we inhabit and the w...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ridinglights.org page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ridinglights.org performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ridinglights.org

92 ms

minified.js

40 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

88 ms

polyfill.min.js

955 ms

thunderbolt-commons.5df16dfe.bundle.min.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ridinglights.org, 39% (13 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 36% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (955 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 752.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

620.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ridinglights.org main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 827.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 667.9 kB

  • Original 827.5 kB
  • After minification 825.8 kB
  • After compression 159.6 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 667.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 256.5 kB
  • After minification 220.4 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. Obviously, Riding Lights needs image optimization as it can save up to 36.2 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 288.8 kB
  • After minification 288.8 kB
  • After compression 240.7 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 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Riding Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ridinglights.org

www.ridinglights.org

92 ms

minified.js

minified.js

40 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

88 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

955 ms

thunderbolt-commons.5df16dfe.bundle.min.js

thunderbolt-commons.5df16dfe.bundle.min.js

62 ms

main.dda15fae.bundle.min.js

main.dda15fae.bundle.min.js

65 ms

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

61 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

66 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

63 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

66 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

64 ms

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64d614_5d496587c16644469656d240916d15be~mv2.png

283 ms

GTE.png

GTE.png

448 ms

RHRN%20Autumn%20Brochure.png

RHRN%20Autumn%20Brochure.png

528 ms

living-wage--white.png

living-wage--white.png

493 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

143 ms

61bd362e-7162-46bd-b67e-28f366c4afbe.woff

61bd362e-7162-46bd-b67e-28f366c4afbe.woff

95 ms

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deprecation-en.v5.html

deprecation-en.v5.html

13 ms

bolt-performance

bolt-performance

13 ms

deprecation-style.v5.css

deprecation-style.v5.css

7 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

4 ms

Accessibility Review

ridinglights.org accessibility score

95

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

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

ridinglights.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

ridinglights.org 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

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 Ridinglights.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 Ridinglights.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

ridinglights.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Riding Lights. 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: