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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

merlincontracting.com

Merlin Custom Home Builders - Las Vegas Custom Home Builders

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

849 ms

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About Website

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Merlin Custom Home Builders has been honored to design, construct and remodel spectacular homes, penthouses, and condominiums in Las Vegas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlincontracting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merlincontracting.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlincontracting.com

129 ms

merlincustomhomebuilders.com

1442 ms

merlin-ie11-fix.css

70 ms

owl.carousel.css

273 ms

font-awesome.min.css

280 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Merlincontracting.com, 82% (148 requests) were made to Merlincustomhomebuilders.com and 7% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Merlincustomhomebuilders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merlincontracting.com main page is 6.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

  • Original 201.0 kB
  • After minification 196.8 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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 168.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 119.1 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Merlin Contracting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 227.2 kB

  • Original 905.2 kB
  • After minification 905.2 kB
  • After compression 678.0 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 227.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 282.0 kB
  • After minification 282.0 kB
  • After compression 280.2 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. Merlincontracting.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (61%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merlin Contracting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

merlincontracting.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

merlincontracting.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

merlincontracting.com SEO score

92

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 Merlincontracting.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 Merlincontracting.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

merlincontracting.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Merlin Contracting. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: