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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

merkleroofing.com

Southeast MI Roofers | Roof Replacement and Repair | Merkle Roofing

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merkleroofing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merkleroofing.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merkleroofing.com

143 ms

www.merkleroofing.com

370 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

82 ms

style.min.css

153 ms

classic-themes.min.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Merkleroofing.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) belongs to the original domain Merkleroofing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

631.2 kB

After Optimization

481.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merkleroofing.com main page is 631.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 337.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 85.2 kB

  • Original 101.3 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 85.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 337.0 kB
  • After minification 304.9 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. Merkle Roofing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 100.4 kB
  • After minification 100.4 kB
  • After compression 89.9 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 92.5 kB
  • After minification 92.5 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. Merkleroofing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (77%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merkle Roofing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merkleroofing.com

merkleroofing.com

143 ms

www.merkleroofing.com

www.merkleroofing.com

370 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

82 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

153 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

189 ms

styles.css

styles.css

189 ms

wprev-public_combine.css

wprev-public_combine.css

191 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

189 ms

style.css

style.css

196 ms

style.css

style.css

227 ms

theme.css

theme.css

257 ms

blog-layouts-module.css

blog-layouts-module.css

322 ms

css

css

34 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

262 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

314 ms

post-759.css

post-759.css

263 ms

global.css

global.css

290 ms

post-23.css

post-23.css

318 ms

css

css

54 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

385 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

330 ms

js

js

63 ms

index.js

index.js

358 ms

index.js

index.js

379 ms

wprev-public-com-min.js

wprev-public-com-min.js

379 ms

theme-script.js

theme-script.js

382 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

451 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

451 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

452 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

452 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

453 ms

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merkle_roofing_logo-1-e1523067957629.png

75 ms

home_h1_background-min-1024x488.jpg

home_h1_background-min-1024x488.jpg

274 ms

Paul-small-min-1-175x300.png

Paul-small-min-1-175x300.png

155 ms

GAF-min-300x113.png

GAF-min-300x113.png

121 ms

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merkle_roofing_logo-1-300x130.png

119 ms

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bbb_logo-min-300x170.png

174 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc-.woff

26 ms

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55 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc-.woff

55 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

145 ms

Accessibility Review

merkleroofing.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

merkleroofing.com 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

merkleroofing.com SEO score

86

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Merkleroofing.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 Merkleroofing.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

merkleroofing.com

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