Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk

Archery Equipment | Merlin Archery

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Welcome to Merlin Archery! Shop 200+ brands of the finest archery equipment from around the world. Bows, arrows, targets and accessories all at great prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlinarcherycentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Merlinarcherycentre.co.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.523

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk

274 ms

www.merlinarchery.co.uk

818 ms

modalbox.css

250 ms

calendar-win2k-1.css

255 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Merlinarcherycentre.co.uk, 86% (91 requests) were made to Merlinarchery.co.uk and 9% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Merlinarchery.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Merlinarcherycentre.co.uk main page is 2.9 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 189.3 kB

  • Original 210.3 kB
  • After minification 196.3 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 189.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Merlin Archery Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 754.3 kB

  • Original 939.1 kB
  • After minification 644.4 kB
  • After compression 184.8 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 754.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 294.6 kB

  • Original 339.9 kB
  • After minification 254.8 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Merlinarcherycentre.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (60%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merlin Archery Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk accessibility score

81

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

merlinarcherycentre.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Merlinarcherycentre.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 Merlinarcherycentre.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Merlin Archery Centre. 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: