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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

wespath.org

Benefits and Investments for The United Methodist Church | Wespath Benefits & Investments

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Wespath content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wespath.org

Wespath provides retirement plans, investment solutions and health benefit plans rooted in the principles of The United Methodist Church.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wespath.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wespath.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wespath.org

81 ms

136 ms

www.wespath.org

376 ms

analytics.js

58 ms

gtm.js

381 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Wespath.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) relates to the external source A18814.actonsoftware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 234.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wespath.org main page is 1.5 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.2 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 58.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Wespath images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 285.8 kB
  • After minification 285.8 kB
  • After compression 193.5 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 92.3 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 126.0 kB
  • After minification 126.0 kB
  • After compression 73.7 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. Wespath.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.3 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wespath. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wespath.org

wespath.org

81 ms

136 ms

www.wespath.org

www.wespath.org

376 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

381 ms

js

js

477 ms

css

css

113 ms

css

css

117 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

92 ms

app.css

app.css

73 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

54 ms

careers.css

careers.css

111 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

105 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

75 ms

what-input.js

what-input.js

75 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

77 ms

app.js

app.js

76 ms

jquery

jquery

408 ms

jquery-unobtrusive-ajax

jquery-unobtrusive-ajax

407 ms

scripts

scripts

408 ms

collect

collect

358 ms

hotjar-3904186.js

hotjar-3904186.js

401 ms

18814

18814

622 ms

magnifying-glas-2X.png

magnifying-glas-2X.png

140 ms

wespathorg-logo.png

wespathorg-logo.png

150 ms

FPS-menu-image.jpg

FPS-menu-image.jpg

151 ms

church.png

church.png

201 ms

hp002-1140x500.jpg

hp002-1140x500.jpg

151 ms

icon-lock.png

icon-lock.png

139 ms

icon-data.png

icon-data.png

150 ms

icon-heart.png

icon-heart.png

149 ms

icon-check.png

icon-check.png

207 ms

logo-wespath.png

logo-wespath.png

207 ms

Farhadieh-400.jpg

Farhadieh-400.jpg

206 ms

live-from-wespath-600x260.jpg

live-from-wespath-600x260.jpg

207 ms

5424-B-300x400.jpg

5424-B-300x400.jpg

206 ms

Careers-300x211.png

Careers-300x211.png

207 ms

ame-400x211.jpg

ame-400x211.jpg

243 ms

ie-300x200.jpg

ie-300x200.jpg

247 ms

CFWI-Banner-600x225.jpg

CFWI-Banner-600x225.jpg

244 ms

sg-500x200.jpg

sg-500x200.jpg

242 ms

MIR-223x126.jpg

MIR-223x126.jpg

244 ms

press-release-223x126.jpg

press-release-223x126.jpg

245 ms

blog-223x126.jpg

blog-223x126.jpg

247 ms

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEww.woff

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEww.woff

130 ms

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKw.woff

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKw.woff

186 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

388 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

433 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

331 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

346 ms

BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISmb2Rl.woff

BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISmb2Rl.woff

222 ms

18814

18814

71 ms

Accessibility Review

wespath.org accessibility score

76

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.

Best Practices

wespath.org best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

wespath.org SEO score

76

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

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 Wespath.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 Wespath.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

wespath.org

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