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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

merlinevents.com.au

Merlin Events Australia

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

537 ms

merlinevents.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Host amazing events in Sydney's most unique corporate event venues. Merlin Events cater for Corporate Events, Christmas Parties and more

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlinevents.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merlinevents.com.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlinevents.com.au

44 ms

www.merlinevents.com.au

2156 ms

gtm.js

74 ms

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

965 ms

style.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.css

1402 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Merlinevents.com.au, 10% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Merlinevents.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

898.8 kB

After Optimization

488.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merlinevents.com.au main page is 898.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 708.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 86.6 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 84.8 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 21.4 kB, which is 20% 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 86.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 126 B
  • After minification 121 B

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 Events images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 302.5 kB

  • Original 708.3 kB
  • After minification 697.0 kB
  • After compression 405.8 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 302.5 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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. Merlinevents.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (67%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merlin Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merlinevents.com.au

merlinevents.com.au

44 ms

www.merlinevents.com.au

www.merlinevents.com.au

2156 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

74 ms

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

965 ms

style.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.css

style.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.css

1402 ms

js

js

64 ms

52 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

187 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

236 ms

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B21462746.225545098;sz=1x2;ord=603302702

235 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

235 ms

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233 ms

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235 ms

225 ms

index.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

index.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1002 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1352 ms

jquery.validate.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

jquery.validate.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1064 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1042 ms

jquery.matchHeight.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

jquery.matchHeight.min.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1600 ms

corejslib.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

corejslib.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

2282 ms

core.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

core.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

2393 ms

34 ms

36 ms

merlin.owlCarousel.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

merlin.owlCarousel.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

2029 ms

merlin.mosaicWithHovertextBlock.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

merlin.mosaicWithHovertextBlock.-v-2.0.0-release.4191-v.js

1988 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

2318 ms

events-logo.jpg

events-logo.jpg

2529 ms

igb_adults_group-1.jpg

igb_adults_group-1.jpg

2912 ms

merlin-135.jpg

merlin-135.jpg

2909 ms

health.png

health.png

2485 ms

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133 ms

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194 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

37 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

62 ms

omrhp.js

omrhp.js

98 ms

css2

css2

43 ms

GillSans-Bold.woff

GillSans-Bold.woff

1861 ms

GillSans-UltraBold.woff

GillSans-UltraBold.woff

2581 ms

GillSans-SemiBold.woff

GillSans-SemiBold.woff

1645 ms

GillSans.woff

GillSans.woff

2533 ms

GillSans-Light.woff

GillSans-Light.woff

2133 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

73 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

collect

collect

4 ms

collect

collect

5 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

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868 ms

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1745 ms

merlin-114.jpg

merlin-114.jpg

1162 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

14 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

25 ms

collect

collect

6 ms

Accessibility Review

merlinevents.com.au accessibility score

94

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

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

Best Practices

merlinevents.com.au 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merlinevents.com.au SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Merlinevents.com.au 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 Merlinevents.com.au 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

merlinevents.com.au

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