Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ligonier.org

Ligonier Ministries

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

668 ms

ligonier.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ligonier content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ligonier.org

Ligonier Ministries, founded by R.C. Sproul, exists to proclaim, teach, and defend the holiness of God in all its fullness to as many people as possible.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ligonier.org page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ligonier.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,280 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ligonier.org

21 ms

www.ligonier.org

91 ms

mtiFontTrackingCode.js

65 ms

gtm.js

113 ms

24px-donate.svg

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Ligonier.org, 8% (4 requests) were made to O471.ingest.sentry.io and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (486 ms) relates to the external source Tag.simpli.fi.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 647.1 kB (76%)

Content Size

856.4 kB

After Optimization

209.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Ligonier.org main page is 856.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 726.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 638.4 kB

  • Original 726.5 kB
  • After minification 726.5 kB
  • After compression 88.1 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 638.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 93.1 kB
  • After minification 84.9 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. Ligonier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 430 B

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 21 (53%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ligonier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ligonier.org accessibility score

93

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ligonier.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ligonier.org SEO score

85

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

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 Ligonier.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 Ligonier.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

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