Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

theatreinchicago.com

Theatre In Chicago - Your Source For Plays In Chicago - Chicago Plays

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theatreinchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theatreinchicago.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,440 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theatreinchicago.com

98 ms

theatreinchicago.com

152 ms

www.theatreinchicago.com

405 ms

ui.all.css

43 ms

jquery-1.3.1.js

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Theatreinchicago.com, 15% (10 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 9% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

915.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Theatreinchicago.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 564.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 63.3 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 27.5 kB, which is 43% 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 54.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 499.7 kB
  • After minification 497.4 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. Theatre In Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 167.8 kB

  • Original 564.7 kB
  • After minification 561.4 kB
  • After compression 396.9 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 167.8 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 70.9 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Theatreinchicago.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (52%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theatre In Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theatreinchicago.com accessibility score

81

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

theatreinchicago.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theatreinchicago.com SEO score

79

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theatreinchicago.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Theatreinchicago.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Theatre In Chicago. 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: