Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

theatreguide.com.au

Adelaide Theatre Guide: South Australia's Comprehensive Internet Guide to Local Arts

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

677 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

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About Website

Visit theatreguide.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Theatre Guide content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theatreguide.com.au

The comprehensive online guide to theatre in South Australia, including what's on, auditions, reviews, classifieds, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theatreguide.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 677 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theatreguide.com.au performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theatreguide.com.au

677 ms

www.theatreguide.com.au

1107 ms

atg.css

216 ms

classic-10_7.css

20 ms

widgets.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Theatreguide.com.au, 28% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Theatreguide.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

951.9 kB

After Optimization

836.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Theatreguide.com.au main page is 951.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 920.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 9.7 kB, which is 33% 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 24.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 920.4 kB
  • After minification 829.5 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. Theatre Guide images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 221 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Theatreguide.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (26%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theatre Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theatreguide.com.au accessibility score

73

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theatreguide.com.au 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

SEO Factors

theatreguide.com.au 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 Theatreguide.com.au 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 Theatreguide.com.au 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 description is not detected on the main page of Theatre Guide. 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: