Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

hymns.com

Larice Music Enterprises

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

hymns.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hymns content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hymns.com

Stream Ten Percent, Sounds so Fun and Easy - LariceMusic by User 683000373 on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hymns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hymns.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hymns.com

238 ms

jquery.min.js

81 ms

ac.resizehelper.js

71 ms

photoswipe.css

73 ms

default-skin.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Hymns.com, 25% (13 requests) were made to A-v2.sndcdn.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) belongs to the original domain Hymns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Hymns.com main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 10.1 kB, which is 13% 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 58.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 32.8 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. Hymns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 1.7 MB

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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 113.5 kB
  • After minification 113.5 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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. Hymns.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (76%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hymns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hymns.com accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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.

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

Best Practices

hymns.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hymns.com SEO score

76

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

Links are not crawlable

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 Hymns.com 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 Hymns.com 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 Hymns. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: