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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thelife.com

The Life :: Home

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

thelife.com screenshot

About Website

Visit thelife.com now to see the best up-to-date The Life content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thelife.com

Do you ever get that deep-down feeling like there must be more to the Christian life than what you're experiencing? You’re right. Jesus came to turn everything upside-down and inside-out. “Life t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelife.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelife.com

2642 ms

global.css

13 ms

layout.css

18 ms

color.css

18 ms

main.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Thelife.com, 28% (12 requests) were made to Cdn.thelife.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

647.1 kB

After Optimization

540.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelife.com main page is 647.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 539.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 6.4 kB, which is 17% 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 30.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 539.8 kB
  • After minification 507.1 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. The Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Thelife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelife.com

thelife.com

2642 ms

global.css

global.css

13 ms

layout.css

layout.css

18 ms

color.css

color.css

18 ms

main.css

main.css

18 ms

form.css

form.css

18 ms

dc.js

dc.js

31 ms

jquery-1.js

jquery-1.js

38 ms

jquery_002.js

jquery_002.js

25 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

25 ms

jquery.calendar.js

jquery.calendar.js

26 ms

the-life.js

the-life.js

26 ms

general.js

general.js

35 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

35 ms

dc.js

dc.js

36 ms

thelifelogo_small.png

thelifelogo_small.png

23 ms

join.jpg

join.jpg

15 ms

lifecard-ticker.jpg

lifecard-ticker.jpg

16 ms

treasure-ticker.jpg

treasure-ticker.jpg

16 ms

content-ticker.jpg

content-ticker.jpg

16 ms

Customize-Your-Quiet-Time-1.jpg

Customize-Your-Quiet-Time-1.jpg

18 ms

Careless-G3.jpg

Careless-G3.jpg

19 ms

Common-Ground-Challenge-7.jpg

Common-Ground-Challenge-7.jpg

20 ms

Does-God-Keep-You-Up-At-Night--1.jpg

Does-God-Keep-You-Up-At-Night--1.jpg

21 ms

God-in-the-Dishwasher-G1.jpg

God-in-the-Dishwasher-G1.jpg

19 ms

ico.png

ico.png

22 ms

Treasure-series-1.jpg

Treasure-series-1.jpg

25 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

27 ms

march-16-HP.jpg

march-16-HP.jpg

25 ms

proximanova-semibold-webfont.woff

proximanova-semibold-webfont.woff

32 ms

proximanova-regular-webfont.woff

proximanova-regular-webfont.woff

27 ms

join.jpg

join.jpg

1903 ms

lifecard-ticker.jpg

lifecard-ticker.jpg

1931 ms

content-ticker.jpg

content-ticker.jpg

1899 ms

treasure-ticker.jpg

treasure-ticker.jpg

1930 ms

Customize-Your-Quiet-Time-1.jpg

Customize-Your-Quiet-Time-1.jpg

1904 ms

Careless-G3.jpg

Careless-G3.jpg

1907 ms

God-in-the-Dishwasher-G1.jpg

God-in-the-Dishwasher-G1.jpg

1925 ms

Common-Ground-Challenge-7.jpg

Common-Ground-Challenge-7.jpg

1924 ms

Does-God-Keep-You-Up-At-Night--1.jpg

Does-God-Keep-You-Up-At-Night--1.jpg

1916 ms

Treasure-series-1.jpg

Treasure-series-1.jpg

1924 ms

march-16-HP.jpg

march-16-HP.jpg

1924 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

1921 ms

Accessibility Review

thelife.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thelife.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thelife.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thelife.com 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 Thelife.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

thelife.com

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