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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

meritinsurancegroup.com

Merit Insurance Group - Tinley Park, IL - Independent Agency

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to meritinsurancegroup.com homepage info - get ready to check Merit Insurance Group best content right away, or after learning these important things about meritinsurancegroup.com

Merit Insurance Group offers a variety of personal insurance and business insurance solutions to clients in Illinois and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritinsurancegroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meritinsurancegroup.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritinsurancegroup.com

205 ms

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78 ms

css

124 ms

forge3-activeagency-styles.css

36 ms

style.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Meritinsurancegroup.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to B2530201.smushcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (652 ms) belongs to the original domain Meritinsurancegroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritinsurancegroup.com main page is 1.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 646.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 284.3 kB

  • Original 349.0 kB
  • After minification 342.4 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 284.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 646.8 kB
  • After minification 646.8 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. Merit Insurance Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 277.3 kB
  • After minification 277.3 kB
  • After compression 243.9 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 33.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 143.0 kB

  • Original 337.5 kB
  • After minification 337.1 kB
  • After compression 194.5 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. Meritinsurancegroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 143.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (80%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Insurance Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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205 ms

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78 ms

css

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124 ms

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36 ms

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80 ms

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82 ms

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109 ms

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135 ms

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132 ms

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130 ms

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138 ms

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138 ms

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150 ms

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141 ms

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137 ms

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139 ms

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141 ms

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141 ms

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314 ms

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301 ms

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300 ms

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301 ms

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72 ms

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Accessibility Review

meritinsurancegroup.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

meritinsurancegroup.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

meritinsurancegroup.com SEO score

92

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

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 Meritinsurancegroup.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 Meritinsurancegroup.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 Merit Insurance Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: