Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

arcmercer.org

Arc Mercer | Community-based services for people with special needs and developmental disabilities

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcmercer.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcmercer.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.304

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcmercer.org

2540 ms

common.css

89 ms

p7exp.css

148 ms

home.css

151 ms

p7exp.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Arcmercer.org, 6% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Arcmercer.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.8 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

650.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Arcmercer.org main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 659.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 12% 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 26.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 399.7 kB
  • After minification 379.6 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. Arc Mercer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 441.4 kB

  • Original 659.6 kB
  • After minification 636.0 kB
  • After compression 218.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 441.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 185.9 kB

  • Original 231.1 kB
  • After minification 222.1 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Arcmercer.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 185.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (56%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arc Mercer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

arcmercer.org accessibility score

83

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

arcmercer.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arcmercer.org SEO score

83

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arcmercer.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Arcmercer.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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