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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

merlinbirding.com

Merlin Birding and Nature Tours, LLC | Bird watching Tours | Yellowstone area and International

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

967 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

59 ms

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About Website

Welcome to merlinbirding.com homepage info - get ready to check Merlin Birding best content right away, or after learning these important things about merlinbirding.com

We offer extraordinary, yet affordable birding and natural history excursions in the U.S. and abroad. Merlin Tours takes pride in providing personalized, exceptional customer service for our clients. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlinbirding.com page load time and found that the first response time was 967 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merlinbirding.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.merlinbirding.com

967 ms

minified.js

27 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

54 ms

polyfill.min.js

785 ms

thunderbolt-commons.dae61f88.bundle.min.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Merlinbirding.com, 39% (16 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 32% (13 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (967 ms) belongs to the original domain Merlinbirding.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 548.8 kB (56%)

Content Size

973.1 kB

After Optimization

424.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Merlinbirding.com main page is 973.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 611.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 488.6 kB

  • Original 611.7 kB
  • After minification 610.0 kB
  • After compression 123.1 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 488.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 42.4 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. Obviously, Merlin Birding needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 306.9 kB
  • After minification 306.9 kB
  • After compression 258.7 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 48.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (46%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merlin Birding. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.merlinbirding.com

www.merlinbirding.com

967 ms

minified.js

minified.js

27 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

54 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

785 ms

thunderbolt-commons.dae61f88.bundle.min.js

thunderbolt-commons.dae61f88.bundle.min.js

42 ms

main.de20c391.bundle.min.js

main.de20c391.bundle.min.js

42 ms

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

41 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

40 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

40 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

44 ms

browser-deprecation.bundle.es5.js

browser-deprecation.bundle.es5.js

43 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

44 ms

Merlin%20shrunk.png

Merlin%20shrunk.png

204 ms

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01c3ee_1940f4ca56814098bc92edb7fe0d85d4~mv2.jpg

475 ms

Costa-Rica-Dark-%20Mandibled-Toucan.jpg

Costa-Rica-Dark-%20Mandibled-Toucan.jpg

351 ms

Yellowstone-National-Park-Grizzly-with-c.jpg

Yellowstone-National-Park-Grizzly-with-c.jpg

461 ms

St_-VIncents-Newfoundand-Humpback-%20Whale.jpg

St_-VIncents-Newfoundand-Humpback-%20Whale.jpg

431 ms

Great%20shearwater_JPG.jpg

Great%20shearwater_JPG.jpg

392 ms

merlin%20business.png

merlin%20business.png

626 ms

merlin%20business.png

merlin%20business.png

649 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

39 ms

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173 ms

deprecation-en.v5.html

deprecation-en.v5.html

4 ms

bolt-performance

bolt-performance

18 ms

deprecation-style.v5.css

deprecation-style.v5.css

6 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

14 ms

WixMadeforDisplay_W_Bd.woff

WixMadeforDisplay_W_Bd.woff

5 ms

WixMadeforText_W_Bd.woff

WixMadeforText_W_Bd.woff

7 ms

WixMadeforText_W_Rg.woff

WixMadeforText_W_Rg.woff

4 ms

Accessibility Review

merlinbirding.com accessibility score

90

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

merlinbirding.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merlinbirding.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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