Tools & Wizards About Us
themerrill.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

themerrill.com

4-Star Luxury Hotel in Muscatine | The Merrill Hotel & Conference Center

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

541 ms

themerrill.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Merrill content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about themerrill.com

Experience unparalleled luxury at The Merrill Hotel, a 4-Diamond boutique hotel in Muscatine, IA. Enjoy riverfront views, elegant event spaces, and award-winning dining.

Visit themerrill.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Themerrill.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themerrill.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.themerrill.com

50 ms

css

43 ms

ezz7byz.css

101 ms

ba00e160-682d-013b-5972-0cc47a1f72a4

39 ms

combined-home.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Themerrill.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (4 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (853 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 441.1 kB (59%)

Content Size

743.1 kB

After Optimization

302.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themerrill.com main page is 743.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 506.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 426.1 kB

  • Original 506.3 kB
  • After minification 505.2 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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 426.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 73.0 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. Obviously, The Merrill needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 151.3 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 148.4 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 604 B
  • After minification 599 B
  • After compression 479 B

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. Themerrill.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (71%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Merrill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.themerrill.com

www.themerrill.com

50 ms

css

css

43 ms

ezz7byz.css

ezz7byz.css

101 ms

ba00e160-682d-013b-5972-0cc47a1f72a4

ba00e160-682d-013b-5972-0cc47a1f72a4

39 ms

combined-home.js

combined-home.js

21 ms

player.js

player.js

51 ms

combined.js

combined.js

33 ms

visitorapi.js

visitorapi.js

32 ms

appmeasurement.js

appmeasurement.js

32 ms

js

js

63 ms

print.css

print.css

3 ms

p.css

p.css

22 ms

bat.js

bat.js

500 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

443 ms

11

11

501 ms

bgBody.png

bgBody.png

389 ms

merrillLogo01.png

merrillLogo01.png

337 ms

MerrillLogoLG.png

MerrillLogoLG.png

369 ms

TheMerrill_Tribute_Color.png

TheMerrill_Tribute_Color.png

336 ms

d

d

362 ms

css

css

95 ms

ezz7byz.css

ezz7byz.css

118 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

88 ms

735959686

735959686

853 ms

d

d

78 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

81 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

82 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

81 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

81 ms

p.css

p.css

39 ms

rd

rd

746 ms

16002135.js

16002135.js

731 ms

js

js

741 ms

pixel

pixel

781 ms

getuidnb

getuidnb

796 ms

generic

generic

772 ms

pixel

pixel

784 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

57 ms

id

id

79 ms

33001117.js

33001117.js

41 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZxPw5gAAAFQCnAOH

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZxPw5gAAAFQCnAOH

6 ms

generic

generic

5 ms

ttd

ttd

38 ms

pixel

pixel

31 ms

pixel

pixel

26 ms

api.js

api.js

16 ms

AdX

AdX

28 ms

src=8431766;type=homep0;cat=theme0;qty=1;cost=0;u1=;u2=UNKNOWN;u3=;u4=;u5=;u6=;u8=;u9=;u10=;u11=;u12=;u13=;u14=;u15=;u16=;u17=;u18=;u19=2140;u20=;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=UNKNOWN

src=8431766;type=homep0;cat=theme0;qty=1;cost=0;u1=;u2=UNKNOWN;u3=;u4=;u5=;u6=;u8=;u9=;u10=;u11=;u12=;u13=;u14=;u15=;u16=;u17=;u18=;u19=2140;u20=;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=UNKNOWN

84 ms

pixel

pixel

40 ms

pixel

pixel

38 ms

Accessibility Review

themerrill.com accessibility score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

themerrill.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

themerrill.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Themerrill.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 Themerrill.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

themerrill.com

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