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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

merx.com

MERX : Find New Contracts, Bids & Tenders for Canadian Businesses

Page Load Speed

542 ms in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

350 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merx.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 437 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

merx.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merx.com

105 ms

www.merx.com

152 ms

StdTemplateIIIPA13.css

71 ms

BlueSquarePA13.gif

78 ms

MerxLogoBigPA13.gif

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Merx.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (152 ms) belongs to the original domain Merx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 kB (60%)

Content Size

4.5 kB

After Optimization

1.8 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merx.com main page is 4.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 3.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 2.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 434 B

  • Original 917 B
  • After minification 868 B
  • After compression 483 B

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. Merx.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 434 B or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MERX. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

merx.com

merx.com

105 ms

www.merx.com

www.merx.com

152 ms

StdTemplateIIIPA13.css

StdTemplateIIIPA13.css

71 ms

BlueSquarePA13.gif

BlueSquarePA13.gif

78 ms

MerxLogoBigPA13.gif

MerxLogoBigPA13.gif

89 ms

DrkBlueSquarePA13.gif

DrkBlueSquarePA13.gif

77 ms

Accessibility Review

merx.com accessibility score

89

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

merx.com best practices score

85

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

merx.com SEO score

99

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Merx.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 Merx.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

merx.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MERX. 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: