Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

therefuge.net

The Refuge Church | Kannapolis & Greensboro NC

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

761 ms

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About Website

Welcome to therefuge.net homepage info - get ready to check The Refuge best content right away, or after learning these important things about therefuge.net

The Refuge Church's mission is to ‘be’ the church & not just ‘do’ church, revering God in all we do & revealing God to all we meet.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Therefuge.net page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

therefuge.net performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

therefuge.net

71 ms

therefuge.net

836 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

18 ms

formidableforms.css

43 ms

style.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Therefuge.net, 5% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Therefuge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

772.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Therefuge.net main page is 1.2 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 605.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 220.4 kB

  • Original 259.2 kB
  • After minification 254.2 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 220.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 43.0 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. Obviously, The Refuge needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.4 kB 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 147.2 kB

  • Original 605.8 kB
  • After minification 605.8 kB
  • After compression 458.6 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 147.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 264.1 kB
  • After minification 235.7 kB
  • After compression 232.4 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. Therefuge.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (84%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Refuge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 38 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

therefuge.net accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

therefuge.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

therefuge.net SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Therefuge.net 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 Therefuge.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 data is detected on the main page of The Refuge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: