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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

mdavidmerrill.com

M David Merrill – My Search for Effective, Efficient and Engaging Instruction

Page Load Speed

746 ms in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

580 ms

Page Rendered

139 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mdavidmerrill.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 719 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mdavidmerrill.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mdavidmerrill.com

27 ms

mdavidmerrill.wordpress.com

19 ms

webfont.js

99 ms

twentynineteen.css

103 ms

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mdavidmerrill.com, 19% (8 requests) were made to S1.wp.com and 16% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (317 ms) relates to the external source Mdavidmerrill.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

208.8 kB

After Optimization

142.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mdavidmerrill.com main page is 208.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 84.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 63.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 24.1 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. M David Merrill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 468 B

  • Original 53.2 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 230 B

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Mdavidmerrill.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M David Merrill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mdavidmerrill.com

mdavidmerrill.com

27 ms

mdavidmerrill.wordpress.com

mdavidmerrill.wordpress.com

19 ms

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webfont.js

99 ms

twentynineteen.css

twentynineteen.css

103 ms

127 ms

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102 ms

verbum-comments.css

verbum-comments.css

139 ms

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block-editor.css

147 ms

140 ms

css

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160 ms

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hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

141 ms

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128 ms

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w.js

w.js

140 ms

bilmur.min.js

bilmur.min.js

139 ms

css

css

78 ms

print.css

print.css

13 ms

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317 ms

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15 ms

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54 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

11 ms

Accessibility Review

mdavidmerrill.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Best Practices

mdavidmerrill.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

mdavidmerrill.com SEO score

99

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

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 Mdavidmerrill.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 Mdavidmerrill.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of M David Merrill. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: