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Meritbadge.Info Main Page

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

372 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

608 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritbadge.info page load time and found that the first response time was 372 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meritbadge.info performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

meritbadge.info

372 ms

natu1011.css

141 ms

eServices.aspx

3728 ms

eServices.aspx

185 ms

MERIT-BADGE-INFO200.gif

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Meritbadge.info, 17% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Meritbadge.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.6 kB (43%)

Content Size

213.6 kB

After Optimization

122.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritbadge.info main page is 213.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 132.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 20.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 49.5 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.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 125.3 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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 68.3 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 936 B

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. Meritbadge.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (24%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meritbadge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

meritbadge.info SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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.info 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.info 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

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: