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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

ecfa.org

Setting the Standard for Financial Integrity in Churches and Christ-Centered Nonprofits - ECFA

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

1000 ms

Page Rendered

513 ms

About Website

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

ECFA sets the standard for financial accountability in churches and Christ-centered nonprofits, providing accreditation, resources, and trusted guidance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecfa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ecfa.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecfa.org

76 ms

Home.aspx

92 ms

Home.aspx

102 ms

www.ecfa.org

86 ms

gtm.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Ecfa.org, 8% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (434 ms) belongs to the original domain Ecfa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (64%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecfa.org main page is 4.3 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. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 16.5 kB, which is 20% 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 65.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 142.0 kB

  • Original 909.8 kB
  • After minification 767.8 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, ECFA needs image optimization as it can save up to 142.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 586.1 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 1.4 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 158.3 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. Ecfa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (60%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ECFA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ecfa.org accessibility score

63

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ecfa.org 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ecfa.org SEO score

62

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 Ecfa.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 Ecfa.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 description is not detected on the main page of ECFA. 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: