Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

gloucestercathedral.org.uk

Gloucester Cathedral

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

442 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

gloucestercathedral.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gloucestercathedral.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Gloucester Cathedral best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about gloucestercathedral.org.uk

Gloucester Cathedral stands for the glory of God in Jesus Christ and for the good of all people.

Visit gloucestercathedral.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Gloucestercathedral.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 442 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gloucestercathedral.org.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gloucestercathedral.org.uk

442 ms

jquery.min.js

554 ms

html5shim.js

160 ms

innershiv.js

162 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Gloucestercathedral.org.uk, 18% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 9% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Gloucestercathedral.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (31%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Gloucestercathedral.org.uk main page is 5.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 36.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Obviously, Gloucester Cathedral needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 314.0 kB

  • Original 452.6 kB
  • After minification 437.4 kB
  • After compression 138.6 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 314.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Gloucestercathedral.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (50%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gloucester Cathedral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gloucestercathedral.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gloucestercathedral.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gloucestercathedral.org.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gloucestercathedral.org.uk 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 Gloucestercathedral.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gloucester Cathedral. 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: