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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

meritbadge.org

U.S. Scouting Service Project

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

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About Website

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

U.S. Scouting Service Project - Volunteer Scouting Website for Volunteers with program information about Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Scout Camps and more for Scouts and Scouters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritbadge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.6 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

meritbadge.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritbadge.org

60 ms

usscouts.org

426 ms

general.css

123 ms

adsbygoogle.js

112 ms

HM2.js

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Meritbadge.org, 66% (74 requests) were made to Usscouts.org and 8% (9 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (762 ms) relates to the external source Aid.send.microad.jp.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritbadge.org main page is 1.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 629.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 76.5 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 61.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 629.8 kB
  • After minification 602.6 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. Meritbadge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 466.1 kB
  • After minification 465.4 kB
  • After compression 428.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 814 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Meritbadge.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 814 B or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (37%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meritbadge. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

meritbadge.org

meritbadge.org

60 ms

usscouts.org

usscouts.org

426 ms

general.css

general.css

123 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

112 ms

HM2.js

HM2.js

146 ms

HM_Loader2.js

HM_Loader2.js

149 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

141 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

72 ms

knotpic1.gif

knotpic1.gif

79 ms

knotpic2.gif

knotpic2.gif

167 ms

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knotpic2on.gif

122 ms

usssplogonew.gif

usssplogonew.gif

181 ms

usssplogonewon.gif

usssplogonewon.gif

133 ms

topbar.jpg

topbar.jpg

198 ms

ourblog.png

ourblog.png

159 ms

find.png

find.png

187 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

184 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

215 ms

BSA.png

BSA.png

224 ms

ceiling1.jpg

ceiling1.jpg

241 ms

Ceiling2.jpg

Ceiling2.jpg

244 ms

ceiling2.jpg

ceiling2.jpg

249 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

263 ms

Ceiling4.jpg

Ceiling4.jpg

273 ms

USSSPtopbg.jpg

USSSPtopbg.jpg

281 ms

USSSPtopcorner.jpg

USSSPtopcorner.jpg

344 ms

USSSPrsstop.jpg

USSSPrsstop.jpg

344 ms

USSSPtopfill4.jpg

USSSPtopfill4.jpg

345 ms

USSSPtopupperend.jpg

USSSPtopupperend.jpg

346 ms

USSSPtopcorner2.jpg

USSSPtopcorner2.jpg

346 ms

paypal-donate.gif

paypal-donate.gif

347 ms

USSSPrss.jpg

USSSPrss.jpg

368 ms

USSSPtopend.jpg

USSSPtopend.jpg

368 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

233 ms

branding.css

branding.css

9 ms

Scouts-L.jpg

Scouts-L.jpg

595 ms

atomfeed.gif

atomfeed.gif

305 ms

@1discussit.jpg

@1discussit.jpg

323 ms

forums.jpg

forums.jpg

317 ms

@1lists.jpg

@1lists.jpg

325 ms

EarnTheISP2.png

EarnTheISP2.png

418 ms

@top.a1.jpg

@top.a1.jpg

354 ms

askandy.jpg

askandy.jpg

468 ms

baloosbugle.jpg

baloosbugle.jpg

375 ms

sidemenustart.js

sidemenustart.js

385 ms

HMsidemenu.js

HMsidemenu.js

380 ms

HM_ScriptDOM.js

HM_ScriptDOM.js

415 ms

branding.css

branding.css

29 ms

activities.gif

activities.gif

484 ms

scoutcamps.gif

scoutcamps.gif

452 ms

scoutsite.gif

scoutsite.gif

451 ms

@1advance.jpg

@1advance.jpg

427 ms

@1mb.jpg

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420 ms

@1awards.jpg

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406 ms

@1bp.jpg

@1bp.jpg

451 ms

x-click-but21.gif

x-click-but21.gif

16 ms

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@1flag.jpg

450 ms

@1isp.jpg

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439 ms

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420 ms

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413 ms

@1ceremony.jpg

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406 ms

@1chow.jpg

@1chow.jpg

419 ms

@1critter.jpg

@1critter.jpg

414 ms

@1knots.jpg

@1knots.jpg

405 ms

ScoutFactFiction2.jpg

ScoutFactFiction2.jpg

480 ms

USSSPpresentation.jpg

USSSPpresentation.jpg

394 ms

USSSPFlyer.jpg

USSSPFlyer.jpg

356 ms

mailenable.gif

mailenable.gif

376 ms

amazon.gif

amazon.gif

377 ms

lsoft.png

lsoft.png

383 ms

mslogo.png

mslogo.png

390 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

24 ms

ads

ads

111 ms

itx-logo.gif

itx-logo.gif

396 ms

DNSMadeEasy-logo.png

DNSMadeEasy-logo.png

411 ms

computerscouts.gif

computerscouts.gif

410 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

413 ms

ca-pub-3767634399211704

ca-pub-3767634399211704

105 ms

USSSPnavtop.jpg

USSSPnavtop.jpg

294 ms

USSSPnavmid.jpg

USSSPnavmid.jpg

314 ms

USSSPnavbottom3.jpg

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323 ms

AtUSSSP.jpg

AtUSSSP.jpg

298 ms

left.jpg

left.jpg

297 ms

right.jpg

right.jpg

308 ms

ads

ads

417 ms

print.css

print.css

58 ms

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239 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

198 ms

s

s

6 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

197 ms

cookie_push_onload.html

cookie_push_onload.html

14 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

51 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

37 ms

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

222 ms

icon.png

icon.png

12 ms

asr

asr

762 ms

285 ms

pixel

pixel

39 ms

activeview

activeview

66 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

28 ms

sodar

sodar

113 ms

pixel

pixel

100 ms

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11 ms

tri.gif

tri.gif

100 ms

sodar2.js

sodar2.js

5 ms

runner.html

runner.html

5 ms

aframe

aframe

33 ms

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4 ms

pixel

pixel

19 ms

pixel

pixel

20 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

Accessibility Review

meritbadge.org accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

meritbadge.org best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

meritbadge.org SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Meritbadge.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Meritbadge.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

meritbadge.org

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