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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

meridianhearing.com

Hearing health provider | Canada's #1 Physician Referred | Connect Hearing

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

723 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Connect Hearing offers a full spectrum of hearing testing and solutions for any lifestyle or budget. Learn more about our network of Audiologists and hearing professionals today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meridianhearing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 723 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meridianhearing.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,770 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.connecthearing.ca

723 ms

main.min.css

166 ms

highlight.js

64 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

36 ms

otSDKStub.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Meridianhearing.com, 18% (7 requests) were made to Sonova-retail-media-prd.azureedge.net and 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.5 sec) relates to the external source Sonova-retail-media-prd.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 536.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meridianhearing.com main page is 4.2 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 132.5 kB

  • Original 192.2 kB
  • After minification 182.9 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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 132.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 394.2 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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 Hearing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 154.5 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 144.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Meridianhearing.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (58%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meridian Hearing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.connecthearing.ca

www.connecthearing.ca

723 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

166 ms

highlight.js

highlight.js

64 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

36 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

55 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

56 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

255 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

253 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

334 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

256 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

253 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

331 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

343 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

345 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

344 ms

predictive-search.min.js

predictive-search.min.js

345 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

502 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

355 ms

main.js

main.js

437 ms

ebooking-iframe-integration.js

ebooking-iframe-integration.js

357 ms

schoonenberg-bot-search.js

schoonenberg-bot-search.js

356 ms

3c2fa775-bf09-44e8-9096-79bf6015fc39.json

3c2fa775-bf09-44e8-9096-79bf6015fc39.json

21 ms

connecthearing_us_1.svg

connecthearing_us_1.svg

60 ms

phonak-slim-332.png

phonak-slim-332.png

110 ms

leen-332.png

leen-332.png

851 ms

hearinglossguidecover.png

hearinglossguidecover.png

2454 ms

location

location

52 ms

icon-search-submit.svg

icon-search-submit.svg

95 ms

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52 ms

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114 ms

d

d

75 ms

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97 ms

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microsoftteams-image-(8).png

1455 ms

microsoftteams-image-(12).png

microsoftteams-image-(12).png

7494 ms

microsoftteams-image-(7).png

microsoftteams-image-(7).png

2196 ms

InlineValidationHandler.ashx

InlineValidationHandler.ashx

177 ms

animations-big.min.css

animations-big.min.css

88 ms

icon-arrow-down.svg

icon-arrow-down.svg

86 ms

Accessibility Review

meridianhearing.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

meridianhearing.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

meridianhearing.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

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

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