Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

stmarys-balcombe.org

Welcome to St Mary's Church, Balcombe

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

717 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

617 ms

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About Website

Welcome to stmarys-balcombe.org homepage info - get ready to check St Mary S Balcombe best content right away, or after learning these important things about stmarys-balcombe.org

Welcome to St Mary's, Balcombe. We hope you will find all the information you need about our thriving Church. Click for details of our services and events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stmarys-balcombe.org page load time and found that the first response time was 717 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stmarys-balcombe.org performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.376

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.stmarys-balcombe.org

717 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

213 ms

style.min.css

610 ms

classic-themes.min.css

306 ms

style.css

733 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stmarys-balcombe.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (733 ms) belongs to the original domain Stmarys-balcombe.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.9 kB (57%)

Content Size

995.7 kB

After Optimization

432.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Stmarys-balcombe.org main page is 995.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 325.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 164.9 kB

  • Original 191.4 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 36.5 kB, which is 19% 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 164.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 325.1 kB
  • After minification 306.9 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. St Mary S Balcombe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 166.6 kB

  • Original 229.2 kB
  • After minification 229.2 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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 166.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 213.2 kB

  • Original 249.9 kB
  • After minification 249.7 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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. Stmarys-balcombe.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (18%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Mary S Balcombe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stmarys-balcombe.org accessibility score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stmarys-balcombe.org best practices score

83

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

stmarys-balcombe.org SEO score

90

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

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 Stmarys-balcombe.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 Stmarys-balcombe.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 St Mary S Balcombe. 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: