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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    29% of websites

mercbank.com

Mercantile Bank: Here for you. - Mercantile Bank

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

About Website

Welcome to mercbank.com homepage info - get ready to check Merc Bank best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about mercbank.com

Mercantile Bank offers online banking, mortgages, loans, and investing solutions for personal and business customers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercbank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1.7 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

mercbank.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercbank.com

90 ms

www.mercbank.com

316 ms

dc.js

70 ms

siteanalyze_79224.js

58 ms

ui-tabs.css

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Mercbank.com, 15% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (542 ms) belongs to the original domain Mercbank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.2 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

565.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercbank.com main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 527.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 6.7 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 43.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 465.2 kB
  • After minification 439.2 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. Merc Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 419.3 kB

  • Original 527.6 kB
  • After minification 333.0 kB
  • After compression 108.3 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 419.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Mercbank.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (45%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merc Bank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mercbank.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mercbank.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mercbank.com SEO score

70

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mercbank.com 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 Mercbank.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 description is not detected on the main page of Merc Bank. 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: