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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202623 issues · 73 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on pray.com, 7 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
84BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.8 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 92 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 101 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 99 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 111 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.3 s · 223 KiBAbout 223 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.3 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72 (desktop: 97). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
2,960 HTML elements
The page has 2,960 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
250 ms · 22 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 22 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
162 KiB8 images could be 162 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 81 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (Amplitude Mobile Analytics), adding 28 KiB and 18 ms of main-thread time.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 97 but mobile only 72. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 463 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 19 ms
19 msYour server sent the HTML in 19 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.4 s
7.4 sYour largest element takes 7.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 7.4 s
7.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 7.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 3.2 s
3.2 sReal visitors wait 3.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Speed Index: 4.1 s
4.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s
2.0 sThe first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 12% slower for real visitors
+12%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 92 ms to 111 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user INP: 160 ms
160 msReal visitors wait 160 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) got 19% faster for real visitors
-19%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.6 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 36 ms
36 msScripts block the page for only 36 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.40 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.40 g of CO₂e: 47.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.4 MB in 114 requests
1.4 MBYour homepage downloads 1.4 MB in 114 requests on a phone: images 587 KiB (52), scripts 547 KiB (34) and fonts 146 KiB (4). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
109 links without text
109 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 357 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (19 characters)
Your title is only 19 characters: “Discover | Pray.com”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
408 internal links, 10 external
The homepage links to 408 pages on pray.com and 10 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 94 characters
Your meta description is 94 characters: “Christian podcasts, daily prayers, Bible stories, meditations and worship music from Pray.com.”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Discover”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.pray.com/discover.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.pray.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.pray.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
2 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,439 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page hidden from search
https://www.pray.com/gift is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
2 pages share a title
/ and https://www.pray.com/discover all use the title “Discover | Pray.com”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
8 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 8 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://www.pray.com/discover/be257d4a-f0a7-4133-a6a6-9d1dd0424b32, whose canonical is https://www.pray.com/series/nehemiah-alliance/be257d4a-f0a7-4133-a6a6-9d1dd0424b32. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 184 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
159 of 182 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 10 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 2,312 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,312 words of visible text.
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3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Your Financial Comeback Can Start Today”, “Day 294: Extreme Quote” and “Try again”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at pray.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Vercel
Company
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Westlake Village
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