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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

merchantsbonding.com

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

About Website

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Merchants has had a singular focus on surety bonding since 1933, holding an "A" (Excellent) rating or better from A.M. Best since 1958.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merchantsbonding.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 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 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merchantsbonding.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merchantsbonding.com

29 ms

www.merchantsbonding.com

12 ms

www.merchantsbonding.com

406 ms

otSDKStub.js

41 ms

site.min.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Merchantsbonding.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Merchantsbonding.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merchantsbonding.com main page is 3.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 290.8 kB

  • Original 550.1 kB
  • After minification 470.7 kB
  • After compression 259.3 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 79.4 kB, which is 14% 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 290.8 kB or 53% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Merchantsbonding images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 253.9 kB
  • After minification 253.9 kB
  • After compression 195.3 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 58.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Merchantsbonding.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (26%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merchantsbonding. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

merchantsbonding.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

merchantsbonding.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

merchantsbonding.com SEO score

85

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Merchantsbonding.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 Merchantsbonding.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 Merchantsbonding. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: