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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

merctea.lk

Ceylon Tea | Sri Lanka | Mercantile Produce Brokers Pvt Limited

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Merc Tea content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about merctea.lk

Mercantile Produce Brokers (Pvt) Ltd is a leading tea broker in Sri Lanka. We provide warehousing, training on tea tasting and advice on tea manufacturing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merctea.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merctea.lk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value2.7

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merctea.lk

343 ms

www.merctea.lk

518 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

73 ms

analytics.js

35 ms

tea-cup.gif

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Merctea.lk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (942 ms) belongs to the original domain Merctea.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merctea.lk main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 24.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Merc Tea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 115.4 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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. Merctea.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merc Tea. 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

merctea.lk

merctea.lk

343 ms

www.merctea.lk

www.merctea.lk

518 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

73 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

tea-cup.gif

tea-cup.gif

208 ms

slider.jpg

slider.jpg

539 ms

tea_auction-1.jpg

tea_auction-1.jpg

616 ms

warehouse.jpg

warehouse.jpg

687 ms

tea-tasting-merc-1.jpg

tea-tasting-merc-1.jpg

474 ms

advice-on-tea-manufacture.jpg

advice-on-tea-manufacture.jpg

616 ms

merctea-logo-new.png

merctea-logo-new.png

276 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

341 ms

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

27 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

410 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

479 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

540 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

544 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

606 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

612 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

613 ms

css

css

47 ms

animate.css

animate.css

674 ms

style.css

style.css

676 ms

js

js

80 ms

element.js

element.js

52 ms

brokers-img.jpg

brokers-img.jpg

760 ms

tea-tasting2-.jpg

tea-tasting2-.jpg

760 ms

warehousing-1.jpg

warehousing-1.jpg

816 ms

tea-manufacturing.jpg

tea-manufacturing.jpg

809 ms

purveyor-1.jpg

purveyor-1.jpg

942 ms

digimarketinc-logo.png

digimarketinc-logo.png

761 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

56 ms

nav-bg.png

nav-bg.png

263 ms

nav-sep.jpg

nav-sep.jpg

133 ms

merctea.woff

merctea.woff

68 ms

Accessibility Review

merctea.lk accessibility score

90

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

button, link, and menuitem elements 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

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

merctea.lk best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

merctea.lk 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 Merctea.lk 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 Merctea.lk 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

merctea.lk

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