Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

washingtonimprovtheater.com

DC's Home for Improv Comedy | Washington Improv Theater

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Washingtonimprovtheater.com page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

washingtonimprovtheater.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

washingtonimprovtheater.com

76 ms

witdc.org

124 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

36 ms

main.min.css

112 ms

modernizr.min.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Washingtonimprovtheater.com, 49% (19 requests) were made to Witdc.org and 31% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (685 ms) relates to the external source Witdc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 631.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Washingtonimprovtheater.com main page is 2.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 34.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Washington Improv Theater images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 309.1 kB

  • Original 450.2 kB
  • After minification 450.1 kB
  • After compression 141.0 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 309.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 285.0 kB

  • Original 324.7 kB
  • After minification 321.4 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Washingtonimprovtheater.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Washington Improv Theater. 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.

Accessibility Review

washingtonimprovtheater.com accessibility score

95

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

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.

Best Practices

washingtonimprovtheater.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

washingtonimprovtheater.com SEO score

88

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 doesn't use 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 Washingtonimprovtheater.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 Washingtonimprovtheater.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Washington Improv Theater. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: