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merckserono.com

Healthcare | Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

637 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

243 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merckserono.com page load time and found that the first response time was 637 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merckserono.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

healthcare.html

637 ms

sharethis.js

31 ms

satelliteLib-027df4d74e557c34a4e18f324ed14c8f52187f8f.js

67 ms

main.min.2.0.css

111 ms

jquery.min.2.0.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Merckserono.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to L.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) relates to the external source Emdgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (52%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Merckserono.com main page is 3.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 101.6 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 40.9 kB, which is 34% 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 101.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 954.6 kB
  • After minification 939.1 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. Merck Serono images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 441.0 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 1.0 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 504.3 kB

  • Original 592.7 kB
  • After minification 584.2 kB
  • After compression 88.4 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. Merckserono.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 504.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (52%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merck Serono. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

merckserono.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 Merckserono.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 Merckserono.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

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