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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

christianmonthlyalca.org

The Christian Monthly Newspaper | Apostolic Lutheran Church

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

733 ms

Page Rendered

271 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Christianmonthlyalca.org page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

christianmonthlyalca.org performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

christianmonthlyalca.org

109 ms

www.christianmonthlyalca.org

304 ms

reset.css

23 ms

style.css

49 ms

ie7.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Christianmonthlyalca.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (304 ms) belongs to the original domain Christianmonthlyalca.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

808.8 kB

After Optimization

692.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Christianmonthlyalca.org main page is 808.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 586.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 1.3 kB, which is 11% 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 9.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 586.7 kB
  • After minification 539.1 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. Christian Monthly Alca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 158.4 kB
  • After compression 140.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 30.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Christianmonthlyalca.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (51%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Christian Monthly Alca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

christianmonthlyalca.org

christianmonthlyalca.org

109 ms

www.christianmonthlyalca.org

www.christianmonthlyalca.org

304 ms

reset.css

reset.css

23 ms

style.css

style.css

49 ms

ie7.css

ie7.css

86 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

87 ms

style.css

style.css

98 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

9 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

16 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

158 ms

Quicksand.font.js

Quicksand.font.js

162 ms

twitter.js

twitter.js

90 ms

gettwitter.js

gettwitter.js

166 ms

jquery_cycle.js

jquery_cycle.js

169 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

166 ms

version.js

version.js

89 ms

onload.js

onload.js

171 ms

slide_1.jpg

slide_1.jpg

221 ms

splash-v1.jpg

splash-v1.jpg

219 ms

bible2.jpg

bible2.jpg

178 ms

book-concern2.jpg

book-concern2.jpg

217 ms

ga.js

ga.js

80 ms

background.png

background.png

54 ms

back_menu.png

back_menu.png

53 ms

menu_hover.png

menu_hover.png

45 ms

back_popup.png

back_popup.png

60 ms

intro-bg-custom-v1.png

intro-bg-custom-v1.png

107 ms

shadow_intro.png

shadow_intro.png

95 ms

img_frame.png

img_frame.png

96 ms

but_more.png

but_more.png

97 ms

back_menutabs.png

back_menutabs.png

112 ms

menutabs_left.png

menutabs_left.png

113 ms

menutabs_right.png

menutabs_right.png

164 ms

bullet1.png

bullet1.png

114 ms

back_footer.png

back_footer.png

133 ms

title_footer.png

title_footer.png

163 ms

sepfooter.png

sepfooter.png

162 ms

menu_networking.png

menu_networking.png

163 ms

icon_facebook.png

icon_facebook.png

150 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

christianmonthlyalca.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

christianmonthlyalca.org 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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

christianmonthlyalca.org SEO score

80

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Christianmonthlyalca.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 Christianmonthlyalca.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

christianmonthlyalca.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Christian Monthly Alca. 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: