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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

shepherdboulder.org

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church - Home

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Shepherd Boulder content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shepherdboulder.org

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church is a Boulder, CO member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shepherdboulder.org page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 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

shepherdboulder.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shepherdboulder.org

279 ms

layout.css

38 ms

main.css

74 ms

font.css

162 ms

web.css

274 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Shepherdboulder.org, 33% (17 requests) were made to Cdn.initial-website.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (498 ms) belongs to the original domain Shepherdboulder.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

749.6 kB

After Optimization

689.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shepherdboulder.org main page is 749.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 427.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 34.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 427.8 kB
  • After minification 423.9 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. Shepherd Boulder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 214.1 kB
  • After compression 192.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 506 B

  • Original 63.7 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Shepherdboulder.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (69%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shepherd Boulder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 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

shepherdboulder.org accessibility score

68

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shepherdboulder.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

shepherdboulder.org SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shepherdboulder.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 Shepherdboulder.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

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