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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

elca.org

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Home

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

Welcome to elca.org homepage info - get ready to check Elca best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about elca.org

The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with nearly 2.8 million members in more than 8,500 worshiping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elca.org page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elca.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elca.org

87 ms

elca.org

485 ms

bootstrap.css

104 ms

elca-theme.css

149 ms

homepage.css

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Elca.org, 13% (9 requests) were made to Wwwelca.azureedge.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) belongs to the original domain Elca.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

7.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elca.org main page is 7.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 64.1 kB
  • After minification 59.5 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 50.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Elca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 243.8 kB
  • After minification 243.8 kB
  • After compression 203.4 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 40.4 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 39.9 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Elca.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.2 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (42%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

elca.org

elca.org

87 ms

elca.org

elca.org

485 ms

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bootstrap.css

104 ms

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149 ms

homepage.css

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146 ms

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147 ms

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258 ms

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171 ms

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170 ms

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180 ms

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186 ms

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183 ms

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204 ms

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20 ms

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24 ms

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30 ms

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211 ms

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32 ms

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127 ms

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245 ms

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293 ms

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290 ms

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Accessibility Review

elca.org accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

elca.org best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

elca.org SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elca.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 Elca.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

elca.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Elca. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: