Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

writerscenterstage.org

William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage | Maltz Performing Arts Center | Case Western Reserve University

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Introducing the 2022-2023 Season The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world's best writers to Cleveland. The 2022-...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writerscenterstage.org page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writerscenterstage.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writerscenterstage.org

175 ms

2022-2023-season-writers-center-stage

526 ms

william-n-skirball-writers-center-stage-0

191 ms

gtm.js

137 ms

css_1sVnZ_owhkIUIjW4vDVPddBbZF1_AdWNSzbrcsmQAeU.css

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Writerscenterstage.org, 57% (50 requests) were made to Case.edu and 10% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Case.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

170.2 kB

After Optimization

92.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Writerscenterstage.org main page is 170.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 71.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 14% 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 55.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 25.6 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. Obviously, Writers Center Stage needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.8 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (82%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers Center Stage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writerscenterstage.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

writerscenterstage.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

writerscenterstage.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Writerscenterstage.org 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 Writerscenterstage.org 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 Writers Center Stage. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: