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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

catholicregister.org

The Catholic Register - Canada's leading source for Catholic News

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

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About Website

Visit catholicregister.org now to see the best up-to-date Catholic Register content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about catholicregister.org

News and commentary on events concering Catholics across Canada and internationally.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catholicregister.org page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catholicregister.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

catholicregister.org

91 ms

www.catholicregister.org

2283 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

bootstrap.css

125 ms

template.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Catholicregister.org, 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Catholicregister.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 688.1 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Catholicregister.org main page is 3.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 14.9 kB, which is 20% 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 61.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Catholic Register images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 282.1 kB

  • Original 567.0 kB
  • After minification 558.1 kB
  • After compression 284.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 282.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 293.4 kB

  • Original 406.5 kB
  • After minification 332.7 kB
  • After compression 113.1 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. Catholicregister.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (53%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catholic Register. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

catholicregister.org

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91 ms

www.catholicregister.org

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2283 ms

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gtm.js

68 ms

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125 ms

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Accessibility Review

catholicregister.org accessibility score

89

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

catholicregister.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

catholicregister.org SEO score

86

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 Catholicregister.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 Catholicregister.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

catholicregister.org

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