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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mercybythesea.org

Mercy by the Sea | Spiritual Retreat and Conference Center in CT

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

928 ms

Page Rendered

414 ms

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About Website

Visit mercybythesea.org now to see the best up-to-date Mercy By The Sea content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercybythesea.org

Our spiritual retreat center, located in Madison, CT, offers programs, retreats and events open to all. Meeting and guest rooms are also available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercybythesea.org page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 1.3 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

mercybythesea.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercybythesea.org

69 ms

www.mercybythesea.org

134 ms

txu3zzl.js

84 ms

font-awesome.min.css

40 ms

style.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Mercybythesea.org, 11% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) relates to the external source S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercybythesea.org main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 32.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Mercy By The Sea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 76.7 kB
  • After compression 46.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 30.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Mercybythesea.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (36%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercy By The Sea. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mercybythesea.org

mercybythesea.org

69 ms

www.mercybythesea.org

www.mercybythesea.org

134 ms

txu3zzl.js

txu3zzl.js

84 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

40 ms

style.css

style.css

16 ms

simplelightbox.css

simplelightbox.css

29 ms

style-d.css

style-d.css

34 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

26 ms

simple-lightbox.min.js

simple-lightbox.min.js

30 ms

pageLoad.js

pageLoad.js

49 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

346 ms

embed.css

embed.css

289 ms

slick.css

slick.css

100 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

48 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

collect

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25 ms

js

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63 ms

style-m.css

style-m.css

13 ms

style_print.css

style_print.css

13 ms

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182 ms

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Mercy_By_The_Sea.svg

38 ms

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envelope.svg

164 ms

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homeTop1.jpg

168 ms

featuredBG.png

featuredBG.png

165 ms

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162 ms

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166 ms

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164 ms

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169 ms

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Second_Half_Flyer-small.jpg

171 ms

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cosmic_butterly_from_Hubble-small.jpg

170 ms

Manno-Header-Small.jpg

Manno-Header-Small.jpg

171 ms

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comehavebreakfast-small.jpg

172 ms

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171 ms

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173 ms

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173 ms

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175 ms

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177 ms

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footerlogo.png

174 ms

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146 ms

homeLogo.png

homeLogo.png

154 ms

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156 ms

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153 ms

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152 ms

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154 ms

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42 ms

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46 ms

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20 ms

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7 ms

Accessibility Review

mercybythesea.org accessibility score

72

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mercybythesea.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mercybythesea.org SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mercybythesea.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 Mercybythesea.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

mercybythesea.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mercy By The Sea. 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: