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merchact.com

Merchant Services Provider | Multi-Currency, US & Offshore Accounts | MerchACT

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merchact.com page load time and found that the first response time was 306 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merchact.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

merchact.com

306 ms

www.merchact.com

1635 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

52 ms

font-awesome.min.css

182 ms

flexslider.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Merchact.com, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Merchact.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

593.0 kB

After Optimization

471.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Merchact.com main page is 593.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 205.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 102.4 kB
  • After minification 95.3 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 86.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 205.2 kB
  • After minification 200.3 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. MerchACT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 142.8 kB
  • After minification 142.8 kB
  • After compression 124.6 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 18.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 142.5 kB
  • After compression 130.5 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. Merchact.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (75%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MerchACT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

merchact.com SEO score

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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 Merchact.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 Merchact.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 data is detected on the main page of MerchACT. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: