Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

crossroadsoflife.net

Crossroads of Life Christian Inc. Christian Bookstore

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

About Website

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Crossroads of Life Inc. Christian Bookstore ~ Your Affordable Christian Bookstore for Books, Music, Videos, Furniture, Gifts and Offering Baskets

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crossroadsoflife.net page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crossroadsoflife.net performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crossroadsoflife.net

149 ms

crossroads-styles.css

53 ms

btn_fbk_160_a.png

58 ms

widgets.js

48 ms

btn_buynow_LG.gif

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Crossroadsoflife.net, 13% (5 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Imgssl.constantcontact.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Crossroadsoflife.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Crossroadsoflife.net main page is 4.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 22% 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 30.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Obviously, Crossroads Of Life needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 770 B
  • After minification 770 B
  • After compression 701 B

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. Crossroadsoflife.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crossroads Of Life. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

crossroadsoflife.net accessibility score

63

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

crossroadsoflife.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

crossroadsoflife.net SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Crossroadsoflife.net 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 Crossroadsoflife.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Crossroads Of 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: