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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

discover.catholic.edu

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Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

525 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discover.catholic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discover.catholic.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

37 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

header.js

12 ms

style.css

47 ms

custom.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Discover.catholic.edu, 13% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Cardinaladmissions.my.salesforce-sites.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cardinaladmissions.my.salesforce-sites.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 365.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discover.catholic.edu main page is 4.0 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 183.8 kB

  • Original 194.2 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 141.2 kB, which is 73% 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 183.8 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Discover Catholic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 335.3 kB
  • After minification 335.3 kB
  • After compression 300.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 73.8 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. Discover.catholic.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (69%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Catholic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

discover.catholic.edu accessibility score

85

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

discover.catholic.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

discover.catholic.edu SEO score

81

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

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 Discover.catholic.edu 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 Discover.catholic.edu 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 Discover Catholic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: