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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

catholicauthors.com

The Library of Catholic Authors - Your Guide to Roman Catholic Literature

Page Load Speed

437 ms in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

168 ms

Page Rendered

169 ms

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About Website

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Biographies and autobiographies of major and minor Catholic literary figures of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catholicauthors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 337 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catholicauthors.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

catholicauthors.com

100 ms

interior.gif

8 ms

guide.gif

13 ms

transparent.gif

13 ms

whitebackground.gif

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Catholicauthors.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (100 ms) belongs to the original domain Catholicauthors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

94.6 kB

After Optimization

82.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Catholicauthors.com main page is 94.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 1.3 kB, which is 12% 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 8.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 79.5 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. Catholic Authors images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catholic Authors. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

catholicauthors.com

catholicauthors.com

100 ms

interior.gif

interior.gif

8 ms

guide.gif

guide.gif

13 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

13 ms

whitebackground.gif

whitebackground.gif

11 ms

index.gif

index.gif

10 ms

press.jpg

press.jpg

34 ms

search.gif

search.gif

29 ms

featured.gif

featured.gif

30 ms

vonh.jpg

vonh.jpg

33 ms

Tolkien1.JPG

Tolkien1.JPG

46 ms

hasley.jpg

hasley.jpg

33 ms

gkc.jpg

gkc.jpg

50 ms

image2.gif

image2.gif

44 ms

Accessibility Review

catholicauthors.com accessibility score

42

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

catholicauthors.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

catholicauthors.com SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Catholicauthors.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Catholicauthors.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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