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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

faceretirement.merrilledge.com

Online Investing, Stock Trading, and Brokerage - Merrill Edge

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

723 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Faceretirement.merrilledge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

faceretirement.merrilledge.com performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value28,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.545

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.merrilledge.com

1108 ms

sparta-widget-loader-util.js

273 ms

ose.override.css

107 ms

global.css

318 ms

utag.sync.js

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Faceretirement.merrilledge.com, 19% (17 requests) were made to Merrilledge.ml.bac-assets.com and 16% (14 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Merrilledge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 698.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Faceretirement.merrilledge.com main page is 2.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 259.9 kB

  • Original 313.0 kB
  • After minification 300.5 kB
  • After compression 53.1 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 259.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 569.4 kB
  • After minification 484.5 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. Obviously, Faceretirement Merrill Edge needs image optimization as it can save up to 85.0 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 336.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 728.0 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 336.1 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. Faceretirement.merrilledge.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (46%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Faceretirement Merrill Edge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.merrilledge.com

www.merrilledge.com

1108 ms

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sparta-widget-loader-util.js

273 ms

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234 ms

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220 ms

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378 ms

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557 ms

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361 ms

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558 ms

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107 ms

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162 ms

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67 ms

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65 ms

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809 ms

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50 ms

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Accessibility Review

faceretirement.merrilledge.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

faceretirement.merrilledge.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

faceretirement.merrilledge.com SEO score

46

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Faceretirement.merrilledge.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Faceretirement.merrilledge.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

faceretirement.merrilledge.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Faceretirement Merrill Edge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: