Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

northstarknox.com

Northstar Church - Knoxville, TN | Leading you to a relationship with Jesus

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

About Website

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We are a multi-campus non-denominational church in Knoxville TN. We want to help you trade fear and failure for the hope and joy of Jesus.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstarknox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 1.9 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

northstarknox.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.858

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northstarknox.com

109 ms

northstarknox.com

645 ms

se_styles.css

43 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

51 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Northstarknox.com, 65% (41 requests) were made to Cdn-northstar.b-cdn.net and 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (645 ms) belongs to the original domain Northstarknox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Northstarknox.com main page is 2.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 167.5 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 199.5 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 167.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Northstar Knox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 190.7 kB
  • After minification 190.7 kB
  • After compression 188.0 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 40.0 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. Northstarknox.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (73%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northstar Knox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northstarknox.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

northstarknox.com 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

northstarknox.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Northstar Knox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: