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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

merrypowell.com

Merry Powell Interiors - Interior Designer - Richmond, VA

Page Load Speed

317 ms in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

181 ms

Page Rendered

119 ms

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About Website

Welcome to merrypowell.com homepage info - get ready to check Merry Powell best content right away, or after learning these important things about merrypowell.com

Merry Powell Interiors is a full service residential decorating and interior design firm based in Richmond, VA. In addition, Merry offers custom furniture and window treatments, color selection help, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrypowell.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 300 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merrypowell.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merrypowell.com

17 ms

merrypowell.com

29 ms

style.css

2 ms

modernizr-2.5.2.min.js

5 ms

ga.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Merrypowell.com, 15% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Houzz.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (114 ms) relates to the external source Houzz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

585.0 kB

After Optimization

560.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merrypowell.com main page is 585.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 542.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 2.5 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 542.0 kB
  • After minification 533.6 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. Merry Powell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 9.5 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Merrypowell.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merry Powell. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

merrypowell.com

merrypowell.com

17 ms

merrypowell.com

merrypowell.com

29 ms

style.css

style.css

2 ms

modernizr-2.5.2.min.js

modernizr-2.5.2.min.js

5 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

badge20_20_2.png

badge20_20_2.png

114 ms

bgswirl.png

bgswirl.png

36 ms

mpilogo.png

mpilogo.png

36 ms

whitebg.png

whitebg.png

15 ms

dining.jpg

dining.jpg

35 ms

facebook_16.gif

facebook_16.gif

15 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

15 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

merrypowell.com accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

merrypowell.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

merrypowell.com SEO score

92

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Merrypowell.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 Merrypowell.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

merrypowell.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Merry Powell. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: