Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

meridian.org

Meridian International Center

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

meridian.org screenshot

About Website

Visit meridian.org now to see the best up-to-date Meridian content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about meridian.org

Meridian International Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit diplomacy center founded in 1960 with the vision that greater understanding and collaboration between the United States and the world leads to...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meridian.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meridian.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,000 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.meridian.org

2101 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

204 ms

css

25 ms

css

37 ms

css3_table_style.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Meridian.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Meridian.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (28%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Meridian.org main page is 4.3 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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 133.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 206.4 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Meridian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 639.2 kB

  • Original 947.0 kB
  • After minification 931.0 kB
  • After compression 307.7 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 639.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 231.1 kB

  • Original 273.8 kB
  • After minification 209.5 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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. Meridian.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 231.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (57%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meridian. 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 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

meridian.org accessibility score

81

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

meridian.org 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

meridian.org SEO score

81

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

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

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 Meridian.org 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 Meridian.org 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 Meridian. 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: