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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

merex.ca

Canadian Saltfish, Cod, Pollock, Hake, Cusk, Ling, Mackerel, Herring, and frozen.

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

847 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

Visit merex.ca now to see the best up-to-date Merex content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about merex.ca

Canadian producers and marketers of dried salted fish, and a complete line of products, from North Atlantic species, smoked, pickled and frozen seafood.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merex.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 847 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merex.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merex.ca

847 ms

modernizr.js

251 ms

detectizr.js

247 ms

jquery-2.1.1.js

340 ms

jquery.cycle2.js

327 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Merex.ca, 31% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (847 ms) belongs to the original domain Merex.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 544.9 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

973.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merex.ca main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 830.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. 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 20.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 830.1 kB
  • After minification 814.4 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. Merex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 441.5 kB

  • Original 587.7 kB
  • After minification 425.5 kB
  • After compression 146.2 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 441.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 50.3 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Merex.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (65%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merex.ca

merex.ca

847 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

251 ms

detectizr.js

detectizr.js

247 ms

jquery-2.1.1.js

jquery-2.1.1.js

340 ms

jquery.cycle2.js

jquery.cycle2.js

327 ms

perfect-scrollbar.js

perfect-scrollbar.js

247 ms

jquery.columnizer.js

jquery.columnizer.js

247 ms

flowtype.js

flowtype.js

259 ms

izj7qtq.js

izj7qtq.js

147 ms

style.css

style.css

357 ms

styles.css

styles.css

331 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

490 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

376 ms

jquery.lightbox.min.js

jquery.lightbox.min.js

410 ms

jquery.lightbox.plugin.min.js

jquery.lightbox.plugin.min.js

416 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

415 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

417 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

503 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

502 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

501 ms

element.js

element.js

40 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

136 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

111 ms

background-home.jpg

background-home.jpg

409 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

109 ms

jquery.lightbox.min.css

jquery.lightbox.min.css

123 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

102 ms

prev.gif

prev.gif

103 ms

next.gif

next.gif

100 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

99 ms

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287 ms

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16 ms

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63 ms

Accessibility Review

merex.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

merex.ca 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

SEO Factors

merex.ca SEO score

100

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

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