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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

thecenters.org

Centers for Apologetics Research (CFAR) | International Countercult Ministries | Resources on cults and apologetics for the worldwide church

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

931 ms

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecenters.org page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecenters.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecenters.org

41 ms

thecenters.org

81 ms

glb_style.css

50 ms

glb_javascripts.js

88 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Thecenters.org, 11% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

249.1 kB

After Optimization

194.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecenters.org main page is 249.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 179.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 8.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 805 B

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 32.4 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. The Centers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 179.1 kB
  • After minification 173.5 kB
  • After compression 148.8 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 30.3 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Thecenters.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Centers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecenters.org

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41 ms

thecenters.org

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81 ms

glb_style.css

glb_style.css

50 ms

glb_javascripts.js

glb_javascripts.js

88 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

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125 ms

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109 ms

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sdk.js

103 ms

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platform.js

113 ms

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103 ms

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74 ms

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158 ms

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55 ms

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150 ms

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311 ms

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site_bg.gif

36 ms

logo_cfar.png

logo_cfar.png

33 ms

b_getinvolved.gif

b_getinvolved.gif

34 ms

bg_nav.gif

bg_nav.gif

131 ms

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130 ms

b_about.gif

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130 ms

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232 ms

b_updates.gif

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231 ms

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276 ms

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259 ms

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b_contact.gif

260 ms

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h_mainbanner.gif

343 ms

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290 ms

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290 ms

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r_icn_video.gif

289 ms

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289 ms

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301 ms

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337 ms

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336 ms

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336 ms

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335 ms

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335 ms

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378 ms

st_featuredresource.gif

st_featuredresource.gif

399 ms

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377 ms

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395 ms

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392 ms

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392 ms

st_featuredcountry.gif

st_featuredcountry.gif

456 ms

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sdk.js

113 ms

rnCr-x5V0g7ipix7auM-mH_OSQ.ttf

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493 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

312 ms

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www-subscribe-embed_split_v0.css

46 ms

www-subscribe-embed_v0.js

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109 ms

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115 ms

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22 ms

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81 ms

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71 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

13 ms

Accessibility Review

thecenters.org accessibility score

61

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

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

thecenters.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

thecenters.org SEO score

58

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

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 Thecenters.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 Thecenters.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

thecenters.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Centers. 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: