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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

466 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contentbuilder.merlot.org page load time and found that the first response time was 466 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contentbuilder.merlot.org performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contentbuilder.merlot.org

466 ms

login.htm

474 ms

merlotstyles.css

406 ms

main.css

215 ms

header.css

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Contentbuilder.merlot.org, 70% (26 requests) were made to Merlot.org and 11% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (625 ms) relates to the external source Merlot.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.6 kB (57%)

Content Size

436.5 kB

After Optimization

185.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contentbuilder.merlot.org main page is 436.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 257.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 109.8 kB
  • After minification 83.0 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 26.8 kB, which is 24% 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 91.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 603 B

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 13.7 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. Contentbuilder Merlot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 114.3 kB

  • Original 257.3 kB
  • After minification 218.9 kB
  • After compression 143.1 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 114.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. Contentbuilder.merlot.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (79%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contentbuilder Merlot. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

contentbuilder.merlot.org

contentbuilder.merlot.org

466 ms

login.htm

login.htm

474 ms

merlotstyles.css

merlotstyles.css

406 ms

main.css

main.css

215 ms

header.css

header.css

353 ms

megamenu.css

megamenu.css

351 ms

jquery-2.0.3.min.js

jquery-2.0.3.min.js

615 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

353 ms

jquery.lightbox_me.js

jquery.lightbox_me.js

398 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

417 ms

jquery-accessibleMegaMenu.js

jquery-accessibleMegaMenu.js

625 ms

tiles.css

tiles.css

522 ms

punycode.min.js

punycode.min.js

464 ms

element.js

element.js

90 ms

MERLOT2_logo.gif

MERLOT2_logo.gif

72 ms

profile_arrow.png

profile_arrow.png

70 ms

merlotlogoreverse.png

merlotlogoreverse.png

76 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

76 ms

csu_redlogo_footer.gif

csu_redlogo_footer.gif

76 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

76 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

145 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

144 ms

rss.png

rss.png

144 ms

wordpress.png

wordpress.png

144 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

145 ms

android.png

android.png

144 ms

app_store.png

app_store.png

240 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

53 ms

profile_arrow_active.png

profile_arrow_active.png

140 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

63 ms

main.js

main.js

76 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

collect

collect

91 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

42 ms

translate_24dp.png

translate_24dp.png

58 ms

l

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49 ms

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

59 ms

Accessibility Review

contentbuilder.merlot.org accessibility score

81

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

contentbuilder.merlot.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

contentbuilder.merlot.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Contentbuilder.merlot.org 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 Contentbuilder.merlot.org 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

contentbuilder.merlot.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Contentbuilder Merlot. 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: