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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

balancingthesword.com

Bible Study Guide, Reading Planner, Vocabulary Tool - Balancing the Sword by Allen B. Wolfe

Page Load Speed

21.2 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

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About Website

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Comprehensive BIBLE study guide by Allen Wolfe; online Bible reading planner; vocabulary tool; and world’s largest homeschool speakers & events database.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balancingthesword.com page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 21 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

balancingthesword.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balancingthesword.com

208 ms

www.balancingthesword.com

311 ms

style.css

172 ms

javascript.js

177 ms

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Balancingthesword.com, 21% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Piwik.webcontrolcenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

277.4 kB

After Optimization

251.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balancingthesword.com main page is 277.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 172.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 16.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 76.5 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. Balancing The Sword images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 172.1 kB
  • After minification 170.4 kB
  • After compression 167.3 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

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Balancingthesword.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (33%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balancing The Sword. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balancingthesword.com

balancingthesword.com

208 ms

www.balancingthesword.com

www.balancingthesword.com

311 ms

style.css

style.css

172 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

177 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

53 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

10 ms

a.png

a.png

249 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

seamless_blue_tile.jpg

seamless_blue_tile.jpg

84 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

83 ms

materials.jpg

materials.jpg

122 ms

balancingthesword.gif

balancingthesword.gif

291 ms

subtitle.gif

subtitle.gif

294 ms

vertsword.gif

vertsword.gif

298 ms

men-at-the-cross_marc-and-allen-wolfe.jpg

men-at-the-cross_marc-and-allen-wolfe.jpg

243 ms

buynowbanner.gif

buynowbanner.gif

239 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

181 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

20146 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

21 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

8 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

26 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

23 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

34 ms

3604799710-postmessagerelay.js

3604799710-postmessagerelay.js

20 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

8 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

337 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

5 ms

Accessibility Review

balancingthesword.com accessibility score

64

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

Best Practices

balancingthesword.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

balancingthesword.com SEO score

54

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

balancingthesword.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balancing The Sword. 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: