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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thewaitingroom.us

The Waiting Room | Downtown Rahway's Legendary Restaurant & Bar

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Waiting Room content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thewaitingroom.us

Nestled in the heart of downtown Rahway, The Waiting Room is Union County's legendary restaurant and bar, providing a welcome sanctuary for all who enter.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewaitingroom.us page load time and found that the first response time was 250 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

thewaitingroom.us performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewaitingroom.us

250 ms

www.thewaitingroom.us

213 ms

www.thewaitingroom.us

301 ms

bootstrap.min.css

159 ms

custom.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Thewaitingroom.us, 17% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (431 ms) belongs to the original domain Thewaitingroom.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewaitingroom.us main page is 1.7 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 1.3 kB, which is 16% 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 6.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. The Waiting Room images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 216.8 kB
  • After minification 189.7 kB
  • After compression 73.0 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 143.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 308.5 kB

  • Original 367.1 kB
  • After minification 320.2 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. Thewaitingroom.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 308.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (64%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Waiting Room. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thewaitingroom.us

thewaitingroom.us

250 ms

www.thewaitingroom.us

www.thewaitingroom.us

213 ms

www.thewaitingroom.us

www.thewaitingroom.us

301 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

159 ms

custom.css

custom.css

214 ms

website.css

website.css

179 ms

all.css

all.css

431 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

179 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

284 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

213 ms

jquery.jcarousellite_1.1.js

jquery.jcarousellite_1.1.js

242 ms

jquery_jcarousellite.js

jquery_jcarousellite.js

241 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

267 ms

jquery.metadata.js

jquery.metadata.js

266 ms

jquery_fancybox.js

jquery_fancybox.js

284 ms

js

js

78 ms

css

css

33 ms

css

css

48 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

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1653073715_PXL_20220520_190125152.PORTRAIT.jpg

214 ms

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1647032297_waiting-room-bar.jpg

268 ms

1647032133_waiting-room-homepage-carousel-interior-rs2.jpg

1647032133_waiting-room-homepage-carousel-interior-rs2.jpg

269 ms

waiting-room-homepage-logo.png

waiting-room-homepage-logo.png

162 ms

menu-star.png

menu-star.png

59 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

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19 ms

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22 ms

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30 ms

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32 ms

Accessibility Review

thewaitingroom.us accessibility score

96

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 input fields do not have accessible names

Best Practices

thewaitingroom.us 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thewaitingroom.us SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thewaitingroom.us 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 Thewaitingroom.us 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

thewaitingroom.us

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Waiting Room. 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: