Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

crosswire.org

The CrossWire Bible Society - Free Bible Software - Bringing the Gospel to a new generation

Page Load Speed

637 ms in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

417 ms

Page Rendered

72 ms

crosswire.org screenshot

About Website

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

The CrossWire Bible Society is an organization with the purpose to sponser and provide a place for engineers and others to come and collaborate on free, open-source projects aimed at furthing the King...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crosswire.org page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 489 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crosswire.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crosswire.org

148 ms

crosswire.css

109 ms

crosswire.gif

110 ms

linux.png

110 ms

windows.png

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Crosswire.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (267 ms) belongs to the original domain Crosswire.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

51.7 kB

After Optimization

36.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Crosswire.org main page is 51.7 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 38.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 6.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 32.4 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, Cross Wire needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 841 B

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. Crosswire.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

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

Accessibility Review

crosswire.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

crosswire.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

crosswire.org SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Crosswire.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 Crosswire.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 Cross Wire. 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: