Summary & Methodology

The goal of this summary is to provide Catholic Women in Business (CWIB) co-founder, Taryn de Long, a summary that specifies particular solutions that aid in the technical performance for the CWIB website, as well as informative by provisioning audited reports with regard to website performance.

Conducting research through Chrome's Developer Tools show CWIB's website uses Squarespace's content management system (CMS). Two well-known and vetted solutions to assess and approach optimal website performance are through Google's diagnostic metrics tool, Lighthouse, and Core Web Vitals field data. Lighthouse audits were performed to benchmark the following four criteria for CWIB's Home, Articles, and Podcasts pages:

• Performance, this measures website performance. Placing particular attention to website runtime (aka how much resources are used/unused when the website loads).
• Accessibility, this measures how compliant websites are with implementing accessibility features for accessible persons.
• Best Practies, this checks whether websites are practicing approved methods regarding trust and safety.
• SEO, in its expanded form, "Search Engine Optimization," is a large, general set of quantifiable and qualitative data to digest into actionable items regarding content strategy and the website's resource usage.

Of these observations, the good news is CWIB's website excels at 3 of the 4 criteria, for both mobile and desktop devices. The 25% will impact site speed, and this contributes to benefits in search engine results pages (SERPs).

Reports

When auditing the "/articles," page, it first evaluates the formerly designated, "/read." Network shows "/read" was given a 301 redirect response code. So, it's in the interest of the website administrator to see that Squarespace definitively indexes "/articles," as "/articles," through their CMS platform.

Reports show mobile and desktop site performance with scores of 28/100 and 50/100, respectively. This is very common among many website across the internet. A brief checklist summarizes action items based on findings.

Action Items

Replace on Squarespace, the link pointing to "/read" as "/articles."
Review formatting and "minify" assets to reduce loadtime impact for Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), as this is part of Core Web Vitals

Lighthouse Reports

Diagnostic reports are linked for CWIB's "Home," "Articles," and "Podcasts," as a touch points in which users consume and interact with content.

Home

Home Report
Snapshot Report

Articles

Articles (as "/articles") Report
Articles (as "/read") Report
Articles (as "/articles") Snapshot
Articles (as "/read") Snapshot

Podcast

Podcast Report
Podcast Snapshot

Core Web Vitals

Performance Mobile Diagnostics through PageSpeed Insights (CWIB Home only)
Performance Desktop Diagnostics through PageSpeed Insights (CWIB Home only)