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merrillcontracting.com

Merrill Contracting & Remodeling, Inc. Quality, Service, Trusted Since 1987

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

945 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrillcontracting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merrillcontracting.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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194 ms

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1044 ms

bfc7187ca70be256ea1b2af61ea88df6.min.css

177 ms

js

86 ms

style.min.css

493 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Merrillcontracting.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Merrillcontracting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

399.6 kB

After Optimization

223.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merrillcontracting.com main page is 399.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 179.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 128.2 kB
  • After minification 126.0 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 108.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Merrill Contracting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 87.0 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 52.1 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 34.9 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 179.6 kB
  • After minification 179.6 kB
  • After compression 147.5 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. Merrillcontracting.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (55%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merrill 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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194 ms

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1044 ms

bfc7187ca70be256ea1b2af61ea88df6.min.css

bfc7187ca70be256ea1b2af61ea88df6.min.css

177 ms

js

js

86 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

493 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

124 ms

a0921bfed0d91e11096a068a243c01f7.min.js

a0921bfed0d91e11096a068a243c01f7.min.js

494 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

257 ms

js

js

444 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

439 ms

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407 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

393 ms

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260 ms

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collect

102 ms

SEO Factors

merrillcontracting.com SEO score

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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 Merrillcontracting.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 Merrillcontracting.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: