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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

meritmusic.org

Merit School of Music | Chicago Music School - West Loop

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Merit Music content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about meritmusic.org

Merit School of Music is a nationally accredited music school located in Chicago, removing barriers to high-quality music education. Merit School of Music provides Chicago kids and teens with access t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritmusic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meritmusic.org performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritmusic.org

144 ms

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284 ms

main.min.css

31 ms

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29 ms

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45 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Meritmusic.org, 25% (25 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 18% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (784 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 535.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritmusic.org main page is 1.7 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 535.4 kB

  • Original 535.4 kB
  • After compression 8 B

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. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 535.4 kB or 100% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Merit Music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 28 B

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 273 B

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Meritmusic.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (59%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Music. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

meritmusic.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

meritmusic.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

meritmusic.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Meritmusic.org 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 Meritmusic.org 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Merit Music. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: