Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

stmarysycamore.com

The Church of St. Mary, Sycamore, IL

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

686 ms

stmarysycamore.com screenshot

About Website

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Official website of The Church of St. Mary | St. Mary Catholic School, Sycamore IL. Features include parish and school news, Mass and Confessions schedule, bulletins, parish and school calendar, descr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stmarysycamore.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stmarysycamore.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stmarysycamore.com

62 ms

stmarysycamore.com

2336 ms

rokbox.css

97 ms

slideshow.css

95 ms

module.min.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Stmarysycamore.com, 63% (78 requests) were made to D171pnicuhg6dj.cloudfront.net and 11% (14 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Stmarysycamore.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Stmarysycamore.com main page is 2.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 90.3 kB

  • Original 102.8 kB
  • After minification 80.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 22.5 kB, which is 22% 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 90.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. St Mary Sycamore images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 260.2 kB
  • After minification 260.2 kB
  • After compression 243.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 122.1 kB
  • After minification 122.1 kB
  • After compression 111.3 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. Stmarysycamore.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (53%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Mary Sycamore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stmarysycamore.com accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stmarysycamore.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

stmarysycamore.com SEO score

85

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

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 Stmarysycamore.com 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 Stmarysycamore.com 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 data is detected on the main page of St Mary Sycamore. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: