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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mercury.mercola.com

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercury.mercola.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercury.mercola.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercury.mercola.com

88 ms

mercury.mercola.com

139 ms

www.mercola.com

169 ms

mercolajquery1.js

101 ms

GetCSS.aspx

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Mercury.mercola.com, 42% (10 requests) were made to Media.mercola.com and 21% (5 requests) were made to Mercola.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (298 ms) relates to the external source Media.mercola.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.0 kB (56%)

Content Size

650.9 kB

After Optimization

286.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mercury.mercola.com main page is 650.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 566.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 11.3 kB, which is 13% 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 65.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 744 B
  • After minification 744 B

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. Mercury Mercola images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 298.1 kB

  • Original 566.6 kB
  • After minification 566.6 kB
  • After compression 268.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 298.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (50%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercury Mercola. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mercury.mercola.com

mercury.mercola.com

88 ms

mercury.mercola.com

mercury.mercola.com

139 ms

www.mercola.com

www.mercola.com

169 ms

mercolajquery1.js

mercolajquery1.js

101 ms

GetCSS.aspx

GetCSS.aspx

120 ms

mercoladatalayer20210126.js

mercoladatalayer20210126.js

71 ms

launch-1d4e41c3ac1d.min.js

launch-1d4e41c3ac1d.min.js

133 ms

mercolapagespeed.js

mercolapagespeed.js

57 ms

seosubscriptionbox.js

seosubscriptionbox.js

39 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

rocket-loader.min.js

11 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

147 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

167 ms

mercola-logo-responsive.png

mercola-logo-responsive.png

298 ms

invisible.js

invisible.js

99 ms

mercolamarket-m-logo_white.png

mercolamarket-m-logo_white.png

248 ms

mercola-m-logo.svg

mercola-m-logo.svg

249 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

30 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

282 ms

rd

rd

6 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

184 ms

id

id

195 ms

75b334128a598224

75b334128a598224

32 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0xbmAAAAFp6zANP

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0xbmAAAAFp6zANP

9 ms

mercolapagespeed.js

mercolapagespeed.js

36 ms

Accessibility Review

mercury.mercola.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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

mercury.mercola.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mercury.mercola.com SEO score

86

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

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 Mercury.mercola.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 Mercury.mercola.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 Mercury Mercola. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: