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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

umcdiscipleship.org

Discipleship Ministries | Equipping World-Changing Disciples

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Umcdiscipleship.org page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 2.2 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

umcdiscipleship.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

umcdiscipleship.org

132 ms

www.umcdiscipleship.org

1098 ms

main.css

56 ms

css

24 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Umcdiscipleship.org, 9% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Gbod-assets.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Umcdiscipleship.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

776.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Umcdiscipleship.org main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 707.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 48.0 kB
  • After minification 39.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 8.1 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 37.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 167.8 kB

  • Original 707.7 kB
  • After minification 539.9 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, Umc Discipleship needs image optimization as it can save up to 167.8 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 120.8 kB

  • Original 340.6 kB
  • After minification 340.3 kB
  • After compression 219.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 120.8 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Umcdiscipleship.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (55%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Umc Discipleship. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

umcdiscipleship.org

umcdiscipleship.org

132 ms

www.umcdiscipleship.org

www.umcdiscipleship.org

1098 ms

main.css

main.css

56 ms

css

css

24 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

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49 ms

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49 ms

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54 ms

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53 ms

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175 ms

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37 ms

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336 ms

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31 ms

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20 ms

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82 ms

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127 ms

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89 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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gbod-logo@2x.png

65 ms

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88 ms

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64 ms

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87 ms

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170 ms

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83 ms

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86 ms

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111 ms

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110 ms

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109 ms

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109 ms

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112 ms

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167 ms

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165 ms

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164 ms

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166 ms

umc-logo-large.png

umc-logo-large.png

173 ms

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main.js

168 ms

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87 ms

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49 ms

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28 ms

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134 ms

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134 ms

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51 ms

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15 ms

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69 ms

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113 ms

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56 ms

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57 ms

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57 ms

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31 ms

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111 ms

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30 ms

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55 ms

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25 ms

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48 ms

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27 ms

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40 ms

Accessibility Review

umcdiscipleship.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

umcdiscipleship.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

umcdiscipleship.org SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

umcdiscipleship.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Umc Discipleship. 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: