Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

merrickprep.com

Merrick Preparatory School | Private School | Ontario | Canada

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

69 ms

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About Website

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Students come to Merrick Preparatory School for the focused academic attention and small class sizes within an unique private boarding school in one of Canada’s safest communities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrickprep.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merrickprep.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.merrickprep.com

119 ms

minified.js

56 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

56 ms

polyfill.min.js

168 ms

600728b11e976d00017bee58.js

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Merrickprep.com, 32% (17 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 30% (16 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.6 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

568.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Merrickprep.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 908.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 725.1 kB

  • Original 908.6 kB
  • After minification 906.7 kB
  • After compression 183.4 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. 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 725.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 193.5 kB
  • After minification 163.8 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. Obviously, Merrick Prep needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 223.9 kB
  • After minification 223.9 kB
  • After compression 221.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (38%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merrick Prep. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merrickprep.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

merrickprep.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

merrickprep.com SEO score

97

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

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 Merrickprep.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 Merrickprep.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

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