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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

merlingroup.co.za

Chartered Accountants (SA) & Registered Auditors | Merlin Chartered Accountants

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

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About Website

Visit merlingroup.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Merlin Group content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about merlingroup.co.za

Chartered Accountants (SA) and Registered Auditors - audit and assurance, accounting, tax, advisory and secretarial services. Call 021 913 7504.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlingroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 6.3 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

merlingroup.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlingroup.co.za

2272 ms

styles.css

519 ms

css

39 ms

style.css

517 ms

jquery.min.js

785 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Merlingroup.co.za, 21% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Merlingroup.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

406.7 kB

After Optimization

281.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merlingroup.co.za main page is 406.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 147.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 121.2 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 145.8 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 121.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 115.1 kB
  • After minification 112.7 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. Merlin Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 897 B

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 126.2 kB
  • After compression 125.3 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 437 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Merlingroup.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (71%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merlin 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merlingroup.co.za

merlingroup.co.za

2272 ms

styles.css

styles.css

519 ms

css

css

39 ms

style.css

style.css

517 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

785 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

782 ms

verification.js

verification.js

780 ms

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

780 ms

index.js

index.js

781 ms

index.js

index.js

781 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

1568 ms

jquery.mobile.js

jquery.mobile.js

1040 ms

magnific-popup.js

magnific-popup.js

1044 ms

gs-logo-divi-frontend.min.js

gs-logo-divi-frontend.min.js

1041 ms

common.js

common.js

1199 ms

style.css

style.css

532 ms

Logo4.png

Logo4.png

266 ms

Slide-Final2.jpg

Slide-Final2.jpg

538 ms

Footer-Widget-BG.jpg

Footer-Widget-BG.jpg

264 ms

et-divi-dynamic-69-late.css

et-divi-dynamic-69-late.css

261 ms

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37 ms

modules.woff

modules.woff

776 ms

Slide-BG-Text-Scroller.jpg

Slide-BG-Text-Scroller.jpg

518 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

264 ms

Accessibility Review

merlingroup.co.za accessibility score

83

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

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

merlingroup.co.za 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

SEO Factors

merlingroup.co.za SEO score

83

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

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 Merlingroup.co.za 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 Merlingroup.co.za 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

merlingroup.co.za

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