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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

merzapothecary.com

Merz Apothecary | Chicago

Page Load Speed

667 ms in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

368 ms

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

Visit merzapothecary.com now to see the best up-to-date Merz Apothecary content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about merzapothecary.com

Merz Apothecary is a pharmacy established in Chicago in 1875 by Peter Merz, We specialize in unique and natural health, personal care and beauty products from around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merzapothecary.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 564 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merzapothecary.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.331

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merzapothecary.com

103 ms

style.css

11 ms

css

30 ms

nivo-slider.css

20 ms

front.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Merzapothecary.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (115 ms) belongs to the original domain Merzapothecary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merzapothecary.com main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 19.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Merz Apothecary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 155.5 kB

  • Original 242.6 kB
  • After minification 240.5 kB
  • After compression 87.1 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 155.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Merzapothecary.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (47%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merz Apothecary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merzapothecary.com

merzapothecary.com

103 ms

style.css

style.css

11 ms

css

css

30 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

20 ms

front.css

front.css

22 ms

styles.css

styles.css

21 ms

foobox.free.min.css

foobox.free.min.css

22 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

53 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

25 ms

foobox.free.min.js

foobox.free.min.js

75 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

50 ms

default.css

default.css

50 ms

orman.css

orman.css

51 ms

pascal.css

pascal.css

73 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

91 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

92 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

94 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

94 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

58 ms

bak-tile.jpg

bak-tile.jpg

13 ms

merz_header.jpg

merz_header.jpg

112 ms

nav-bak-frame.jpg

nav-bak-frame.jpg

13 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

115 ms

merz_banner.jpg

merz_banner.jpg

110 ms

merz_downtownbanner.jpg

merz_downtownbanner.jpg

115 ms

home-promo-history140.jpg

home-promo-history140.jpg

108 ms

category_labels_02.jpg

category_labels_02.jpg

109 ms

category_labels_03.jpg

category_labels_03.jpg

109 ms

category_labels_04.jpg

category_labels_04.jpg

111 ms

contact-bar-2013.jpg

contact-bar-2013.jpg

110 ms

popular-brands.jpg

popular-brands.jpg

110 ms

complete-brands.jpg

complete-brands.jpg

111 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

Y_TKV6o8WovbUd3m_X9aAA.ttf

Y_TKV6o8WovbUd3m_X9aAA.ttf

9 ms

banner-status-on.png

banner-status-on.png

18 ms

banner-status-off.png

banner-status-off.png

10 ms

foobox.svg

foobox.svg

12 ms

foobox.woff

foobox.woff

14 ms

Accessibility Review

merzapothecary.com accessibility score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

merzapothecary.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

merzapothecary.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Merzapothecary.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 Merzapothecary.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

merzapothecary.com

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