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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

showtix4u.com

ShowTix4U – Free Online Ticketing – Schools, Community, Regional

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

695 ms

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About Website

Welcome to showtix4u.com homepage info - get ready to check Show Tix4U best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about showtix4u.com

ShowTix4U is a free online ticketing solution for K-12, Colleges, Community Theatre, Dance Groups, and Regional Events. Sell tickets today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Showtix4u.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 1.7 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

showtix4u.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

showtix4u.com

119 ms

www.showtix4u.com

105 ms

js

84 ms

gtm.js

117 ms

showtix.core.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Showtix4u.com, 44% (12 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 15% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (383 ms) relates to the external source Assets.calendly.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 463.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Showtix4u.com main page is 4.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 200.5 kB

  • Original 262.6 kB
  • After minification 230.0 kB
  • After compression 62.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.6 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 200.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 231.1 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB

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. Show Tix4U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 169.0 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 137.0 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 32.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Showtix4u.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Show Tix4U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

showtix4u.com

showtix4u.com

119 ms

www.showtix4u.com

www.showtix4u.com

105 ms

js

js

84 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

117 ms

showtix.core.css

showtix.core.css

105 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

76 ms

showtix.variables.min.js

showtix.variables.min.js

77 ms

showtix.ui.min.js

showtix.ui.min.js

64 ms

widget.css

widget.css

153 ms

widget.js

widget.js

383 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

29 ms

css

css

92 ms

js

js

257 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

collect

collect

270 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

174 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

199 ms

screens-2.png

screens-2.png

255 ms

how-it-works.jpg

how-it-works.jpg

198 ms

S2_Seat_Choice.png

S2_Seat_Choice.png

255 ms

S2_Tickets.jpg

S2_Tickets.jpg

368 ms

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jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhcMWkANDM.ttf

255 ms

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhrsWkANDM.ttf

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhrsWkANDM.ttf

366 ms

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhHMWkANDM.ttf

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhHMWkANDM.ttf

370 ms

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhrsKkANDM.ttf

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhrsKkANDM.ttf

371 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

134 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

154 ms

Accessibility Review

showtix4u.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

showtix4u.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

showtix4u.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Showtix4u.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 Showtix4u.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

showtix4u.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Show Tix4U. 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: