Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

merrillgardens.com

Merrill Gardens | Senior Living

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrillgardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2 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

merrillgardens.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.537

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merrillgardens.com

74 ms

www.merrillgardens.com

1045 ms

jquery.min.js

79 ms

merrillgardenscom.css

140 ms

merrillgardenscom.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Merrillgardens.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Pixel.mathtag.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Cdn11.g5search.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Merrillgardens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 323.5 kB (42%)

Content Size

777.8 kB

After Optimization

454.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Merrillgardens.com main page is 777.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 329.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 6.3 kB, which is 11% 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 44.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 310.6 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. Merrill Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 177.6 kB

  • Original 293.2 kB
  • After minification 284.5 kB
  • After compression 115.6 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 177.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 70.8 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. Merrillgardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (72%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merrill Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merrillgardens.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

merrillgardens.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merrillgardens.com SEO score

84

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 Merrillgardens.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 Merrillgardens.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

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