Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

cross.tv

The Christian Social Network in 22 languages - CROSS.TV

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

cross.tv screenshot

About Website

Visit cross.tv now to see the best up-to-date CROSS content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cross.tv

CROSS TV the Christian Social Network in 22 languages is a place to connect with believers worldwide, find churches and non-profits, and watch sermons, christian music videos, movies, conferences and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cross.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 3 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

cross.tv performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cross.tv

58 ms

www.cross.tv

2357 ms

combine_css.php

33 ms

protoaculous.js

29 ms

prerequisites.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Cross.tv, 70% (104 requests) were made to St1-fs.cdn01.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Cross.tv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cross.tv main page is 1.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 100.2 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 16.3 kB, which is 16% 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 84.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. CROSS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 130.4 kB
  • After minification 130.4 kB
  • After compression 119.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (19%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

117

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CROSS. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cross.tv accessibility score

83

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.

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

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

cross.tv 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

SEO Factors

cross.tv 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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cross.tv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed German language. Our system also found out that Cross.tv 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 CROSS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: