Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

merriweatherdistrict.com

Merriweather District - Live, Work & Play - Downtown Columbia, MD

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

5.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merriweatherdistrict.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 7.2 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

merriweatherdistrict.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merriweatherdistrict.com

96 ms

merriweatherdistrict.com

489 ms

js

133 ms

fbevents.js

63 ms

style.min.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Merriweatherdistrict.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Tags.srv.stackadapt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) belongs to the original domain Merriweatherdistrict.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Merriweatherdistrict.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 83.9 kB
  • After minification 80.4 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 65.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Merriweather District images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 268.3 kB
  • After minification 268.3 kB
  • After compression 253.2 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 45.4 kB
  • After minification 45.4 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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. Merriweatherdistrict.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (76%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merriweather District. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merriweatherdistrict.com accessibility score

90

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.

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

merriweatherdistrict.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

merriweatherdistrict.com SEO score

99

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 Merriweatherdistrict.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 Merriweatherdistrict.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 data is detected on the main page of Merriweather District. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: