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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

mercstuff.com

MerCruiser Tools and Supplies for the do-it-yourselfer

Page Load Speed

447 ms in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

193 ms

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

Visit mercstuff.com now to see the best up-to-date Mer Cstuff content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercstuff.com

We manufacture and sell specialty tools and supplies to the do-it-yourselfer for repairing MerCruiser sterndrives.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercstuff.com page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 330 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercstuff.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercstuff.com

117 ms

index.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_bnr.gif

17 ms

btzhsepa.gif

23 ms

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_p.gif

21 ms

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Mercstuff.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (117 ms) belongs to the original domain Mercstuff.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

54.8 kB

After Optimization

39.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Mercstuff.com main page is 54.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 42.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. 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 9.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 36.8 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, Mer Cstuff needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mer Cstuff. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

mercstuff.com

mercstuff.com

117 ms

index.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_bnr.gif

index.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_bnr.gif

17 ms

btzhsepa.gif

btzhsepa.gif

23 ms

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_p.gif

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_p.gif

21 ms

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

home_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

24 ms

aboutus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

aboutus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

24 ms

aboutus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

aboutus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

24 ms

howdoi.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

howdoi.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

27 ms

howdoi.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

howdoi.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

32 ms

parts.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

parts.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

31 ms

parts.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

parts.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

35 ms

links.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

links.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

31 ms

links.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

links.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

32 ms

used_stuff.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

used_stuff.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

31 ms

used_stuff.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

used_stuff.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

36 ms

contactus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

contactus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn.gif

38 ms

contactus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

contactus.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz2010_vbtn_a.gif

40 ms

outdrive.jpg

outdrive.jpg

48 ms

index5.jpg

index5.jpg

40 ms

55 ms

hitchicon.gif

hitchicon.gif

44 ms

visa.jpg

visa.jpg

46 ms

bottom1.jpg

bottom1.jpg

49 ms

mail.jpg

mail.jpg

50 ms

Accessibility Review

mercstuff.com accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mercstuff.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

mercstuff.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mercstuff.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 Mercstuff.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

mercstuff.com

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