Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

mertsheating.com

Merts Heating & Air Conditioning | Heating & Cooling Illinois & Indiana

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

337 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mertsheating.com homepage info - get ready to check Merts Heating best content right away, or after learning these important things about mertsheating.com

Since 1952, Merts has been providing commercial & residential heating and cooling services to Steger IL & Crown Point IN. Schedule an appointment today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mertsheating.com page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mertsheating.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mertsheating.com

225 ms

mertsheating.com

325 ms

www.mertsheating.com

572 ms

jquery.min.js

70 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Mertsheating.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (640 ms) belongs to the original domain Mertsheating.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

949.9 kB

After Optimization

587.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Mertsheating.com main page is 949.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 538.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 348.3 kB

  • Original 411.6 kB
  • After minification 407.3 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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 348.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 538.4 kB
  • After minification 523.8 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. Merts Heating images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (86%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merts Heating. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mertsheating.com accessibility score

85

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

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

mertsheating.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mertsheating.com SEO score

91

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 Mertsheating.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 Mertsheating.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 Merts Heating. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: