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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

marlin.com

Marlin Apartments | Serviced Apartments and Aparthotel in London

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

576 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marlin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marlin.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marlin.com

173 ms

www.marlin.com

4132 ms

gtm.js

89 ms

hotjar-496824.js

118 ms

bat.js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Marlin.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Browser-update.org and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Marlin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 185.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marlin.com main page is 2.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 9.4 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 51.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 131.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Marlin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 151.5 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 149.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 12.5 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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. Marlin.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marlin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marlin.com

marlin.com

173 ms

www.marlin.com

www.marlin.com

4132 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

89 ms

hotjar-496824.js

hotjar-496824.js

118 ms

bat.js

bat.js

84 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

44 ms

osano.js

osano.js

298 ms

css

css

68 ms

application.css

application.css

234 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

66 ms

js

js

104 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

391 ms

application.js

application.js

238 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

114 ms

59618.js

59618.js

73 ms

5561223.js

5561223.js

18 ms

marlin-logo.svg

marlin-logo.svg

123 ms

icon-menu.svg

icon-menu.svg

121 ms

BF-35068.jpg

BF-35068.jpg

332 ms

icon-calendar.svg

icon-calendar.svg

157 ms

icon-tick.png

icon-tick.png

164 ms

1543Mar-tonyHphoto-174_R.jpg

1543Mar-tonyHphoto-174_R.jpg

531 ms

Waterloo_long_ok.jpg

Waterloo_long_ok.jpg

383 ms

icon-fish.svg

icon-fish.svg

237 ms

tower_bridge_unsplash.jpg

tower_bridge_unsplash.jpg

478 ms

limehouse_small_2.jpg

limehouse_small_2.jpg

326 ms

marlin_empire_sm.jpg

marlin_empire_sm.jpg

384 ms

cw_close_range_sm.jpg

cw_close_range_sm.jpg

403 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

406 ms

clem-onojeghuo-142120-unsplash.jpg

clem-onojeghuo-142120-unsplash.jpg

612 ms

marcela-laskoski-636928-unsplash.jpg

marcela-laskoski-636928-unsplash.jpg

763 ms

luigi-manga-457597-unsplash.jpg

luigi-manga-457597-unsplash.jpg

640 ms

affection-beach-child-173666.jpg

affection-beach-child-173666.jpg

504 ms

Stephens_Green.jpg

Stephens_Green.jpg

708 ms

marlin_waterloo_classic_1.jpg

marlin_waterloo_classic_1.jpg

595 ms

trip-adviser.png

trip-adviser.png

605 ms

sub_2update.jpg

sub_2update.jpg

673 ms

city-dark.png

city-dark.png

678 ms

footer-city.png

footer-city.png

689 ms

sharetastic.svg

sharetastic.svg

643 ms

24 ms

sessioncam.recorder.js

sessioncam.recorder.js

29 ms

75058

75058

35 ms

update.min.js

update.min.js

45 ms

EJRVQgYoZZY2vCFuvAFWzrk.woff

EJRVQgYoZZY2vCFuvAFWzrk.woff

30 ms

43 ms

pixel

pixel

53 ms

getuidnb

getuidnb

53 ms

generic

generic

34 ms

update.show.min.js

update.show.min.js

27 ms

38 ms

generic

generic

4 ms

ttd

ttd

66 ms

f.png

f.png

130 ms

pixel

pixel

17 ms

pixel

pixel

17 ms

pixel

pixel

39 ms

AdX

AdX

38 ms

src=8036031;type=track0;cat=marli0;qty=1;cost=0;u1=;u16=;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=UNKNOWN

src=8036031;type=track0;cat=marli0;qty=1;cost=0;u1=;u16=;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=UNKNOWN

77 ms

pixel

pixel

101 ms

Accessibility Review

marlin.com 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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

marlin.com 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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

marlin.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Marlin.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 Marlin.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

marlin.com

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