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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

meridianwest.com

MeridianWest Creative-Web development, design and consulting services

Page Load Speed

683 ms in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

441 ms

Page Rendered

93 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meridianwest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 534 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meridianwest.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meridianwest.com

149 ms

style-boxed.css

180 ms

blog.css

119 ms

css

21 ms

jquery.min.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Meridianwest.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (189 ms) belongs to the original domain Meridianwest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.8 kB (60%)

Content Size

197.9 kB

After Optimization

79.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meridianwest.com main page is 197.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 108.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 1.4 kB, which is 27% 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 3.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 10.5 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. Meridian West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 108.4 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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 50.8 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Meridianwest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (67%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meridian West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

meridianwest.com

meridianwest.com

149 ms

style-boxed.css

style-boxed.css

180 ms

blog.css

blog.css

119 ms

css

css

21 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

custom.js

custom.js

128 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

146 ms

prettyPhoto.js

prettyPhoto.js

144 ms

masonry.js

masonry.js

103 ms

slider-simple.js

slider-simple.js

170 ms

slider-simple.css

slider-simple.css

173 ms

contact-form-validate.js

contact-form-validate.js

189 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

bg-3.png

bg-3.png

76 ms

logo.png

logo.png

101 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

meridianwest.com accessibility score

60

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

meridianwest.com best practices score

67

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

meridianwest.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Meridianwest.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Meridianwest.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

meridianwest.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Meridian West. 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: