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member.m-w.com

Dictionary and Thesaurus | Merriam-Webster

Page Load Speed

644 ms in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

464 ms

Page Rendered

96 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Member.m-w.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 560 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

member.m-w.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

member.m-w.com

84 ms

maintenance.html

161 ms

bootstrap.css

47 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

55 ms

mwunabridged.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Member.m-w.com, 94% (33 requests) were made to Unabridged.merriam-webster.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (174 ms) relates to the external source Unabridged.merriam-webster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 541.5 kB (78%)

Content Size

696.3 kB

After Optimization

154.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Member.m-w.com main page is 696.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 400.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 1.4 kB, which is 14% 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 7.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 10.0 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, Member M W needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 295.8 kB

  • Original 400.2 kB
  • After minification 355.2 kB
  • After compression 104.4 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 295.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 234.6 kB

  • Original 272.7 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Member.m-w.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 234.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (82%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Member M W. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

member.m-w.com

member.m-w.com

84 ms

maintenance.html

maintenance.html

161 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

47 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

55 ms

mwunabridged.css

mwunabridged.css

56 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

60 ms

modernizr.custom.21364.js

modernizr.custom.21364.js

64 ms

mw-ref.css

mw-ref.css

77 ms

global-changes.css

global-changes.css

79 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

119 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.21.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.21.custom.min.js

131 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

81 ms

bootstrap-transition.js

bootstrap-transition.js

84 ms

bootstrap-collapse.js

bootstrap-collapse.js

89 ms

bootstrap-modal.js

bootstrap-modal.js

91 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

102 ms

util.js

util.js

112 ms

mwunabridged.js

mwunabridged.js

150 ms

fontsize.js

fontsize.js

114 ms

modalprint.js

modalprint.js

150 ms

mainsearch.js

mainsearch.js

153 ms

placeholdertext.js

placeholdertext.js

151 ms

resultsbox.js

resultsbox.js

151 ms

customaccordions.js

customaccordions.js

153 ms

carousels.js

carousels.js

154 ms

customform.js

customform.js

172 ms

customtooltips.js

customtooltips.js

173 ms

infobubble.js

infobubble.js

174 ms

viewport.js

viewport.js

174 ms

css

css

24 ms

mw_on_dark.svg

mw_on_dark.svg

44 ms

mw_on_dark.png

mw_on_dark.png

46 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

45 ms

mw_on_dark.gif

mw_on_dark.gif

47 ms

print-definition.css

print-definition.css

25 ms

SEO Factors

member.m-w.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Member.m-w.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 Member.m-w.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Member M W. 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: