Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

merida.com.au

MERIDA BIKES - MERIDA BIKES

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

777 ms

About Website

Visit merida.com.au now to see the best up-to-date MERIDA content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about merida.com.au

Merida Bikes - German engineered mountain bikes, e-bikes, cross bikes, trekking bikes and road bikes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merida.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merida.com.au performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merida.com.au

222 ms

merida.com.au

405 ms

834 ms

common-fda1ebe422c4e6993d5fab4388fd326f.css

42 ms

frontend.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Merida.com.au, 95% (55 requests) were made to D2lljesbicak00.cloudfront.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Merida-bikes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (834 ms) relates to the external source Merida-bikes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Merida.com.au main page is 4.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 82.7 kB

  • Original 96.5 kB
  • After minification 77.5 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 19.0 kB, which is 20% 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 82.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. MERIDA images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 71.5 kB
  • After minification 71.4 kB
  • After compression 65.6 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. Merida.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (50%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MERIDA. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merida.com.au accessibility score

73

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

merida.com.au best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

merida.com.au 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

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 Merida.com.au 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 Merida.com.au 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 description is not detected on the main page of MERIDA. 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: