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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

nationalshrine.com

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Page Load Speed

15.2 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

7.1 sec

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About Website

Visit nationalshrine.com now to see the best up-to-date National Shrine content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nationalshrine.com

Welcome to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception – the largest Roman Catholic Church in North America and one of the ten largest churches in the world.

Visit nationalshrine.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalshrine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 15.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalshrine.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.378

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalshrine.com

54 ms

www.nationalshrine.org

702 ms

all.css

408 ms

all.js

1043 ms

gtranslate-style24.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nationalshrine.com, 72% (111 requests) were made to Nationalshrine.org and 5% (8 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source V1.addthisedge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 701.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationalshrine.com main page is 6.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 268.5 kB

  • Original 338.1 kB
  • After minification 336.8 kB
  • After compression 69.6 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 268.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 394.4 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. National Shrine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 196.5 kB
  • After minification 196.4 kB
  • After compression 161.9 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 34.5 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Nationalshrine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (67%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Shrine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nationalshrine.com

nationalshrine.com

54 ms

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702 ms

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Accessibility Review

nationalshrine.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

<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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

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

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

nationalshrine.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationalshrine.com SEO score

79

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

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 Nationalshrine.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 Nationalshrine.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

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