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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

stageplays-forum.com

The Playwrights Forum | Publishing and Marketing Opportunities

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

805 ms

Page Rendered

691 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stageplays-forum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stageplays-forum.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stageplays-forum.com

343 ms

style_sheet.css

15 ms

wgui.js

25 ms

form.css

190 ms

form-embed.js

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Stageplays-forum.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to Stageplays.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Emailoctopus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) relates to the external source Stageplays.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.6 kB (61%)

Content Size

110.8 kB

After Optimization

43.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stageplays-forum.com main page is 110.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 53.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 43.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 27.9 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. Stageplays Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 6.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Stageplays-forum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (60%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stageplays Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stageplays-forum.com

stageplays-forum.com

343 ms

style_sheet.css

style_sheet.css

15 ms

wgui.js

wgui.js

25 ms

form.css

form.css

190 ms

form-embed.js

form-embed.js

241 ms

shakespeare_ezine.jpg

shakespeare_ezine.jpg

346 ms

4272-290657

4272-290657

112 ms

4272

4272

64 ms

page_bg.gif

page_bg.gif

60 ms

head.gif

head.gif

58 ms

tpf3.png

tpf3.png

96 ms

mbg1.png

mbg1.png

102 ms

bbg.png

bbg.png

101 ms

stabl2.gif

stabl2.gif

107 ms

stabm.gif

stabm.gif

107 ms

stabr2.gif

stabr2.gif

106 ms

tabl.gif

tabl.gif

128 ms

buttonmid.gif

buttonmid.gif

141 ms

tabr.gif

tabr.gif

140 ms

mainbg.gif

mainbg.gif

143 ms

menudot.gif

menudot.gif

143 ms

buttonl.gif

buttonl.gif

142 ms

buttonr.gif

buttonr.gif

143 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

159 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

159 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

222 ms

last_page.gif

last_page.gif

221 ms

rss.jpg

rss.jpg

222 ms

guest.gif

guest.gif

224 ms

forum.gif

forum.gif

223 ms

the_writers_toolkit.jpg

the_writers_toolkit.jpg

312 ms

how_to_write_and_sell_your_plays.jpg

how_to_write_and_sell_your_plays.jpg

265 ms

ticketmaster_uk_small.gif

ticketmaster_uk_small.gif

312 ms

tristram_ad.png

tristram_ad.png

312 ms

upbg.gif

upbg.gif

142 ms

th.gif

th.gif

142 ms

4272

4272

169 ms

how_to_write_and_sell_your_plays.jpg

how_to_write_and_sell_your_plays.jpg

51 ms

Accessibility Review

stageplays-forum.com accessibility score

61

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stageplays-forum.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

stageplays-forum.com SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stageplays-forum.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Stageplays-forum.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

stageplays-forum.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stageplays Forum. 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: