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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

firstzen.org

America's First Rinzai Zen Buddhism Religious Institute

Page Load Speed

313 ms in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

137 ms

Page Rendered

89 ms

firstzen.org screenshot

About Website

Visit firstzen.org now to see the best up-to-date First Zen content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firstzen.org

A non-profit religious organization, we practice meditation, have a library and publish information on Zen Buddhism.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstzen.org page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 226 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstzen.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstzen.org

87 ms

ga.js

10 ms

whv2_001.js

10 ms

FZIsignjpg.gif

3 ms

logo1.gif

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Firstzen.org, 22% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 11% (1 request) were made to L.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (87 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstzen.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

166.8 kB

After Optimization

159.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Firstzen.org main page is 166.8 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 144.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 1.2 kB, which is 26% 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 3.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 144.4 kB
  • After minification 140.5 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. First Zen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 383 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Zen. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

firstzen.org

firstzen.org

87 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

whv2_001.js

whv2_001.js

10 ms

FZIsignjpg.gif

FZIsignjpg.gif

3 ms

logo1.gif

logo1.gif

4 ms

desktopfrog.jpg

desktopfrog.jpg

7 ms

Circle.jpg

Circle.jpg

5 ms

visit.gif

visit.gif

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

firstzen.org accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

firstzen.org best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

firstzen.org SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstzen.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Firstzen.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

firstzen.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of First Zen. 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: