Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

merchantsstronghold.com

Payment Processing Company | High Risk Merchant Account

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

319 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merchantsstronghold.com page load time and found that the first response time was 319 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merchantsstronghold.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merchantsstronghold.com

319 ms

merchantsstronghold.com

417 ms

www.merchantsstronghold.com

2042 ms

h9ndf.css

202 ms

h9ndf.css

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Merchantsstronghold.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Merchantsstronghold.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Merchantsstronghold.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 701.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 186.5 kB

  • Original 242.7 kB
  • After minification 236.7 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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 186.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 701.7 kB
  • After minification 641.6 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. Merchant Sstronghold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 522.1 kB
  • After minification 513.5 kB
  • After compression 485.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 180.8 kB
  • After compression 175.6 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. Merchantsstronghold.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (37%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merchant Sstronghold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merchantsstronghold.com accessibility score

70

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

merchantsstronghold.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

merchantsstronghold.com SEO score

68

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Merchantsstronghold.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 Merchantsstronghold.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 Merchant Sstronghold. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: