Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

franciscanbrothers.net

Catholic Order - Springfield Illinois | Franciscan Brothers

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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About Website

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The Congregations of Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross is a religious community of vowed men who share in the Mission of Jesus by serving the needs of people and the Church in the tradition of St....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franciscanbrothers.net page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franciscanbrothers.net performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.54

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franciscanbrothers.net

259 ms

bootstrap.min.css

138 ms

styles.css

134 ms

api.js

55 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Franciscanbrothers.net, 16% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) belongs to the original domain Franciscanbrothers.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 764.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Franciscanbrothers.net main page is 3.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 15.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 739.3 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Obviously, Franciscan Brothers needs image optimization as it can save up to 739.3 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 452.6 kB
  • After minification 452.5 kB
  • After compression 443.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 757 B

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.8 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. Franciscanbrothers.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (58%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franciscan Brothers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franciscanbrothers.net accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

franciscanbrothers.net 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

franciscanbrothers.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Franciscanbrothers.net 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 Franciscanbrothers.net 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 Franciscan Brothers. 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: