Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

mercerfinancialservices.com

Mercer Super Australia - Welcome to a brighter financial future

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

560 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercerfinancialservices.com page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 6.8 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

mercerfinancialservices.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercerfinancialservices.com

242 ms

www.mercersuper.com.au

3628 ms

utag.js

121 ms

0609.js

56 ms

clientlib-base.min.70267407c54bfd3d524dbb8e5bf56862.css

402 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 Mercerfinancialservices.com, 91% (39 requests) were made to Mercersuper.com.au and 2% (1 request) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) relates to the external source Mercersuper.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.7 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

851.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Mercerfinancialservices.com main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 842.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 288.4 kB

  • Original 307.3 kB
  • After minification 127.7 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 179.5 kB, which is 58% 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 288.4 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 842.0 kB
  • After minification 794.0 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. Mercer Financial Services images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 319 B

  • Original 38.9 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercer Financial Services. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mercerfinancialservices.com accessibility score

86

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

mercerfinancialservices.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mercerfinancialservices.com SEO score

77

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

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 Mercerfinancialservices.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 Mercerfinancialservices.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 description is not detected on the main page of Mercer Financial Services. 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: