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Report Summary

mercerconsortium.com

394 ms

style.css

91 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

179 ms

bootstrap.css

246 ms

bootstrap.min.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Mercerconsortium.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Mercerconsortium.com.

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Mercerconsortium.com main page is 6.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 44.1 kB

Original 51.4 kB
After minification 40.1 kB
After compression 7.4 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 11.3 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 44.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 674.9 kB

Original 5.8 MB
After minification 5.1 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. Obviously, Mercerconsortium needs image optimization as it can save up to 674.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 111.5 kB

Original 139.8 kB
After minification 118.2 kB
After compression 28.3 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 111.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 349.3 kB

Original 411.6 kB
After minification 333.3 kB
After compression 62.3 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. Mercerconsortium.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercerconsortium. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

N/A
Language Claimed

EN
Encoding

UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mercerconsortium.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Mercerconsortium.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 description is not detected on the main page of Mercerconsortium. 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: