Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thirdhour.org

Third Hour | Mormon News, LDS Resources & Forums

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

thirdhour.org screenshot

About Website

Visit thirdhour.org now to see the best up-to-date Third Hour content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thirdhour.org

Third Hour Latter-day Saint articles, media, resources to share the gospel, and global LDS Mormon forum. Make Third Hour part of your day! 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thirdhour.org page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thirdhour.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thirdhour.org

55 ms

thirdhour.org

989 ms

jquery-ui.css

27 ms

swiper.min.css

29 ms

style.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Thirdhour.org, 2% (3 requests) were made to Secure.gravatar.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (989 ms) belongs to the original domain Thirdhour.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thirdhour.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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 947.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 167.7 kB

  • Original 197.2 kB
  • After minification 184.1 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 167.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 947.7 kB
  • After minification 935.1 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. Third Hour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 651.4 kB
  • After minification 651.4 kB
  • After compression 647.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 251.6 kB
  • After compression 243.8 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. Thirdhour.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (75%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Third Hour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thirdhour.org accessibility score

88

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thirdhour.org best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thirdhour.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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