Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 81% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mercer.us

Mercer | Welcome to brighter

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

mercer.us screenshot

About Website

Visit mercer.us now to see the best up-to-date Mercer content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercer.us

At Mercer, we believe in brighter — we redefine the world of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and well-being.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercer.us page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercer.us performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,030 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercer.us

356 ms

316 ms

clientlib-base.min.183be0f794e766cbf483868837dc181f.css

42 ms

clientlibrarymanager.min.4066faea2c14fde8235ed95b86add70c.js

20 ms

jquery.min.3e24d4d067ac58228b5004abb50344ef.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mercer.us, 81% (25 requests) were made to Mercer.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (356 ms) belongs to the original domain Mercer.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 209.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Mercer.us main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 130.6 kB

  • Original 172.9 kB
  • After minification 151.1 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 21.8 kB, which is 13% 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 130.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Mercer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 88.8 kB
  • After minification 88.8 kB
  • After compression 88.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 25 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mercer.us accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

Best Practices

mercer.us best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mercer.us 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.us 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.us 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 data is detected on the main page of Mercer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: