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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blackburncathedral.com

Blackburn Cathedral | Good News for Lancashire | Welcome

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit blackburncathedral.com now to see the best up-to-date Blackburn Cathedral content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blackburncathedral.com

Blackburn Cathedral in Lancashire is one of England's newest Cathedrals with a rich history & heritage of worship, music at the heart of the community 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackburncathedral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackburncathedral.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackburncathedral.com

139 ms

blackburncathedral.com

599 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

19 ms

style.min.css

24 ms

app.4f48ad.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Blackburncathedral.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (599 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackburncathedral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 285.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

658.7 kB

After Optimization

373.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackburncathedral.com main page is 658.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 311.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 283.9 kB

  • Original 311.7 kB
  • After minification 244.8 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 66.9 kB, which is 21% 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 283.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 178.7 kB
  • After minification 178.7 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. Blackburn Cathedral images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 142.3 kB
  • After compression 141.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Blackburncathedral.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (26%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackburn Cathedral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackburncathedral.com

blackburncathedral.com

139 ms

blackburncathedral.com

blackburncathedral.com

599 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

19 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

24 ms

app.4f48ad.css

app.4f48ad.css

24 ms

js

js

61 ms

email-decode.min.js

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9 ms

base.js

base.js

46 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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88 ms

primary_logo.svg

primary_logo.svg

44 ms

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39 ms

tertiary_logo.svg

tertiary_logo.svg

40 ms

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44 ms

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41 ms

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42 ms

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48 ms

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46 ms

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47 ms

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45 ms

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49 ms

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52 ms

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54 ms

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moon-at-blackburn-cathedral-callout.webp

136 ms

Blackburn-cathedral-music-list.webp

Blackburn-cathedral-music-list.webp

301 ms

Worship-online-at-blackburn-cathedral.webp

Worship-online-at-blackburn-cathedral.webp

140 ms

Donate-to-blackburn-cathedral.webp

Donate-to-blackburn-cathedral.webp

146 ms

Volnteer-at-blackburn-cathedral.webp

Volnteer-at-blackburn-cathedral.webp

314 ms

Blackburn-Cathedral-School-Visits.webp

Blackburn-Cathedral-School-Visits.webp

234 ms

Checks-Greys.webp

Checks-Greys.webp

236 ms

Explore-Blackburn-Cathedral.webp

Explore-Blackburn-Cathedral.webp

246 ms

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pillar-whats-on.webp

331 ms

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241 ms

The-Installation-of-Revd-Joseph-Kennedy-as-Bishop-of-Burnley-1024x579.webp

The-Installation-of-Revd-Joseph-Kennedy-as-Bishop-of-Burnley-1024x579.webp

338 ms

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339 ms

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259 ms

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356 ms

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313 ms

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568 ms

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Pillar-Join.webp

424 ms

Donations.webp

Donations.webp

425 ms

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404 ms

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406 ms

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414 ms

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414 ms

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424 ms

main.js

main.js

7 ms

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Dean-of-Blackburn-The-Very-Reverend-Peter-Howell-Jones.webp

322 ms

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GeneralSans-Variable.d7facb.ttf

329 ms

new-interactive-Cathedral-Trail-500x400.webp

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95 ms

Blackburn-Cathedral-Interior-500x400.webp

Blackburn-Cathedral-Interior-500x400.webp

253 ms

blackburn-cathedral-advent-composition-competition-500x400.webp

blackburn-cathedral-advent-composition-competition-500x400.webp

106 ms

Accessibility Review

blackburncathedral.com accessibility score

76

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

blackburncathedral.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

blackburncathedral.com SEO score

93

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

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 Blackburncathedral.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 Blackburncathedral.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

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