Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

christianpost.com

Christian Post | Christian News & Commentaries

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Visit christianpost.com now to see the best up-to-date Christian Post content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about christianpost.com

An online Christian news publication with the latest headlines relevant to Christians. New stories updated daily from a Christian worldview.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Christianpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

christianpost.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

christianpost.com

10 ms

www.christianpost.com

340 ms

main.css

33 ms

min.css

35 ms

mediaquery.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 302 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Christianpost.com, 64% (194 requests) were made to Images.christianpost.com and 11% (32 requests) were made to Graphic.christianpost.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (23%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Christianpost.com main page is 6.2 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 185.9 kB

  • Original 234.6 kB
  • After minification 207.2 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.4 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 185.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 231.5 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Christian Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 961.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 539.5 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 961.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 82.7 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Christianpost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (22%)

Requests Now

294

After Optimization

229

The browser has sent 294 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Christian Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

christianpost.com accessibility score

73

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

christianpost.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

christianpost.com SEO score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Christianpost.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 Christianpost.com 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 Christian Post. 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: