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value

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

index.html

37 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

header.js

12 ms

style.css

47 ms

custom.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Discover.catholic.edu, 13% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Cardinaladmissions.my.salesforce-sites.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cardinaladmissions.my.salesforce-sites.com.

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Discover.catholic.edu main page is 4.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 183.8 kB

Original 194.2 kB
After minification 53.0 kB
After compression 10.4 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 141.2 kB, which is 73% 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 183.8 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

Original 3.4 MB
After minification 3.2 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. Discover Catholic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

Original 335.3 kB
After minification 335.3 kB
After compression 300.8 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

Original 73.8 kB
After minification 73.8 kB
After compression 55.7 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. Discover.catholic.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Catholic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Discover.catholic.edu 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 Discover.catholic.edu 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

discover.catholic.edu

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

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First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

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Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

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