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catholic.org

Catholic Online - World's Catholic Library

Page Load Speed

52.5 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

22.6 sec

Page Rendered

29.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catholic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 52.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catholic.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

catholic.org

307 ms

www.catholic.org

3133 ms

87Qv800FK_k

2086 ms

logo-sm.png

921 ms

jquery.min.js

1067 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Catholic.org, 16% (8 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.4 sec) relates to the external source Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (24%)

Content Size

12.7 MB

After Optimization

9.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Catholic.org main page is 12.7 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 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 172.4 kB

  • Original 215.0 kB
  • After minification 212.6 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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 172.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 372.2 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Catholic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.0 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 456.1 kB

  • Original 553.6 kB
  • After minification 551.4 kB
  • After compression 97.5 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. Catholic.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 456.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (27%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catholic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

catholic.org SEO score

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