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U.S. Scouting Service Project - Volunteer Scouting Website for Volunteers with program information about Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Scout Camps and more for Scouts and Scouters.

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591 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Meritbadge.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) belongs to the original domain Meritbadge.org.

Content Size

5.7 kB

After Optimization

4.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Meritbadge.org main page is 5.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

Original 1.8 kB
After minification 1.7 kB
After compression 668 B

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 1.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 372 B

Original 3.8 kB
After minification 3.5 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. Meritbadge images are well optimized though.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meritbadge. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

Language Claimed

N/A

Encoding

WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Meritbadge.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Meritbadge.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Meritbadge. 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: