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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

meritsoftware.co.uk

Merit Software | Cloud Recruitment & Umbrella Payroll Software

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

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Merit Software homepage. Providers of payroll, invoicing and umbrella software solutions for temp recruitment agencies and umbrella companies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritsoftware.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meritsoftware.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritsoftware.co.uk

285 ms

www.meritsoftware.co.uk

555 ms

app.css

176 ms

slick.css

296 ms

slick-theme.css

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Meritsoftware.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (1 request) were made to V2.zopim.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) belongs to the original domain Meritsoftware.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.9 kB (59%)

Content Size

749.7 kB

After Optimization

303.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritsoftware.co.uk main page is 749.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 367.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 2.4 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 13.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 279 B

  • Original 160.1 kB
  • After minification 159.8 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. Merit Software images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 257.8 kB

  • Original 367.8 kB
  • After minification 330.7 kB
  • After compression 110.0 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 257.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 173.9 kB

  • Original 203.1 kB
  • After minification 202.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Meritsoftware.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Software. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

meritsoftware.co.uk

meritsoftware.co.uk

285 ms

www.meritsoftware.co.uk

www.meritsoftware.co.uk

555 ms

app.css

app.css

176 ms

slick.css

slick.css

296 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

342 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

334 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

427 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

472 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

353 ms

motion-ui.min.js

motion-ui.min.js

381 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

473 ms

tweetie.js

tweetie.js

471 ms

app.js

app.js

471 ms

dc.js

dc.js

117 ms

bureau.jpg

bureau.jpg

118 ms

healthcare.jpg

healthcare.jpg

115 ms

payroll.jpg

payroll.jpg

117 ms

imerit.jpg

imerit.jpg

116 ms

umbrella.jpg

umbrella.jpg

116 ms

ireland.jpg

ireland.jpg

118 ms

sprite.jpg

sprite.jpg

309 ms

forest.jpg

forest.jpg

306 ms

lesters.jpg

lesters.jpg

306 ms

robert-walters.jpg

robert-walters.jpg

308 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

308 ms

medacs.jpg

medacs.jpg

310 ms

hci.jpg

hci.jpg

378 ms

appstore.svg

appstore.svg

312 ms

googleplay.svg

googleplay.svg

316 ms

logo.png

logo.png

366 ms

widget_v2.134.js

widget_v2.134.js

95 ms

sansation_regular-webfont.woff

sansation_regular-webfont.woff

297 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

428 ms

sansation_light-webfont.woff

sansation_light-webfont.woff

275 ms

2076507.js

2076507.js

231 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

116 ms

slick.ttf

slick.ttf

106 ms

__ptq.gif

__ptq.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

meritsoftware.co.uk accessibility score

85

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 do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

meritsoftware.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

meritsoftware.co.uk SEO score

81

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Meritsoftware.co.uk 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 Meritsoftware.co.uk 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

meritsoftware.co.uk

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