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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

merlot.org

MERLOT

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlot.org page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merlot.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlot.org

216 ms

www.merlot.org

441 ms

index.htm

819 ms

merlotstyles.css

433 ms

main.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Merlot.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Merlot.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 960.6 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

491.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merlot.org main page is 1.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 964.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 159.7 kB

  • Original 185.4 kB
  • After minification 149.9 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 35.5 kB, which is 19% 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 159.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 122.9 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. MERLOT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 650.8 kB

  • Original 964.8 kB
  • After minification 821.2 kB
  • After compression 314.0 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 650.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 141.0 kB

  • Original 170.4 kB
  • After minification 126.9 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. Merlot.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (67%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MERLOT. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merlot.org

merlot.org

216 ms

www.merlot.org

www.merlot.org

441 ms

index.htm

index.htm

819 ms

merlotstyles.css

merlotstyles.css

433 ms

main.css

main.css

229 ms

header.css

header.css

369 ms

megamenu.css

megamenu.css

367 ms

jquery-2.0.3.min.js

jquery-2.0.3.min.js

634 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

365 ms

jquery.lightbox_me.js

jquery.lightbox_me.js

501 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

435 ms

jquery-accessibleMegaMenu.js

jquery-accessibleMegaMenu.js

649 ms

tiles_ie.css

tiles_ie.css

566 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

708 ms

css

css

55 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.css

507 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

1042 ms

punycode.min.js

punycode.min.js

576 ms

element.js

element.js

85 ms

triangle_right.png

triangle_right.png

81 ms

triangle_down.png

triangle_down.png

87 ms

triangle_up.png

triangle_up.png

85 ms

MERLOT2_logo.gif

MERLOT2_logo.gif

89 ms

profile_arrow.png

profile_arrow.png

88 ms

merlotlogoreverse.png

merlotlogoreverse.png

89 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

profile_arrow_active.png

profile_arrow_active.png

78 ms

pause.png

pause.png

79 ms

csu_redlogo_footer.gif

csu_redlogo_footer.gif

78 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

79 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

79 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

80 ms

rss.png

rss.png

137 ms

wordpress.png

wordpress.png

138 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

139 ms

android.png

android.png

140 ms

app_store.png

app_store.png

140 ms

home_search.jpg

home_search.jpg

193 ms

home_my_merlot.jpg

home_my_merlot.jpg

182 ms

home_membership.jpg

home_membership.jpg

286 ms

home_about_merlot.jpg

home_about_merlot.jpg

179 ms

extlink.png

extlink.png

180 ms

home_communities.jpg

home_communities.jpg

246 ms

home_create_materials.jpg

home_create_materials.jpg

240 ms

news_background.png

news_background.png

304 ms

play.png

play.png

239 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

home_add_materials.jpg

home_add_materials.jpg

215 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

66 ms

main.js

main.js

87 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

42 ms

translate_24dp.png

translate_24dp.png

55 ms

l

l

40 ms

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

55 ms

Accessibility Review

merlot.org accessibility score

90

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

merlot.org 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

merlot.org SEO score

90

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

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 Merlot.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 Merlot.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

merlot.org

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