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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mercer.edu

Mercer University

Page Load Speed

46.2 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

27.9 sec

Page Rendered

18.2 sec

mercer.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Mercer content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mercer.edu

Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercer.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 46.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercer.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercer.edu

194 ms

www.mercer.edu

2176 ms

jquery.min.js

378 ms

bootstrap.min.css

837 ms

bootstrap-ADF-ext.css

1059 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Mercer.edu, 8% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.7 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercer.edu main page is 2.1 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 882.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 57.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 693.0 kB
  • After minification 686.9 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. Mercer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 613.0 kB

  • Original 882.5 kB
  • After minification 866.7 kB
  • After compression 269.5 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 613.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 374.9 kB

  • Original 449.3 kB
  • After minification 437.4 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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. Mercer.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 374.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (60%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercer. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mercer.edu

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194 ms

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2176 ms

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Accessibility Review

mercer.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

mercer.edu best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mercer.edu SEO score

86

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

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Mercer.edu 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 Mercer.edu 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

mercer.edu

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