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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

urc.org.uk

Home - United Reformed Church

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

941 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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About Website

Welcome to urc.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Urc best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about urc.org.uk

Welcome to the United Reformed Church website. We are a family of Christians, worshipping in the name of Jesus in about 1,500 local churches across the UK

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 941 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

urc.org.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

urc.org.uk

941 ms

css

24 ms

8176b5e1a119dc0e83add5589f15f0ab.css

305 ms

e50964e507916cc11b952f0573c9b28f.js

395 ms

cpe3imb.js

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Urc.org.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to and 4% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (941 ms) belongs to the original domain Urc.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

856.9 kB

After Optimization

563.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Urc.org.uk main page is 856.9 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. Images take 665.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 41.9 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 31.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 146.4 kB

  • Original 665.6 kB
  • After minification 519.1 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. Obviously, Urc needs image optimization as it can save up to 146.4 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 114.4 kB

  • Original 148.7 kB
  • After minification 148.7 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 114.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 459 B

  • Original 762 B
  • After minification 696 B
  • After compression 303 B

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. Urc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 459 B or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

urc.org.uk

urc.org.uk

941 ms

css

css

24 ms

8176b5e1a119dc0e83add5589f15f0ab.css

8176b5e1a119dc0e83add5589f15f0ab.css

305 ms

e50964e507916cc11b952f0573c9b28f.js

e50964e507916cc11b952f0573c9b28f.js

395 ms

cpe3imb.js

cpe3imb.js

177 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

6 ms

d

d

495 ms

URClogo.png

URClogo.png

86 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

328 ms

newslogo.png

newslogo.png

326 ms

letjusticeflowcover.jpg

letjusticeflowcover.jpg

254 ms

Community-awards-photograph.jpg

Community-awards-photograph.jpg

638 ms

ModsBlogmodule.jpg

ModsBlogmodule.jpg

266 ms

FindChurchButton.jpg

FindChurchButton.jpg

286 ms

Learning-environment-link.jpg

Learning-environment-link.jpg

637 ms

reform-urcwebad-2015.jpg

reform-urcwebad-2015.jpg

672 ms

URC-LOGOsmall-2014.png

URC-LOGOsmall-2014.png

490 ms

urcsearchCHURCH3.png

urcsearchCHURCH3.png

653 ms

Media-app-download.jpg

Media-app-download.jpg

637 ms

donateURCpaypal.png

donateURCpaypal.png

709 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

248 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

346 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

138 ms

footer-overlay.png

footer-overlay.png

252 ms

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kLM94ZFAAAAA==

13 ms

kM3+Qs0XhkUAAAA

kM3+Qs0XhkUAAAA

11 ms

kLNF4ZFAAAAA==

kLNF4ZFAAAAA==

10 ms

xv6z27oH9VUILQAAA==

xv6z27oH9VUILQAAA==

10 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

59 ms

timeline.1b43d11859b7663a2225b885f87704a5.js

timeline.1b43d11859b7663a2225b885f87704a5.js

138 ms

p.gif

p.gif

122 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

143 ms

checkOAuth.esi

checkOAuth.esi

23 ms

syndication

syndication

98 ms

560115589424095232

560115589424095232

203 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

25 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

16 ms

cm

cm

35 ms

s-3271.xgi

s-3271.xgi

8 ms

11 ms

hbpix

hbpix

25 ms

6 ms

xrefid.xgi

xrefid.xgi

8 ms

pixel

pixel

16 ms

pixel

pixel

14 ms

2981

2981

21 ms

Accessibility Review

urc.org.uk 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

urc.org.uk 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

SEO Factors

urc.org.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Urc.org.uk 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 Urc.org.uk 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

urc.org.uk

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