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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

voices.merlot.org

MERLOT Voices - Putting Educational Innovations into Practice.

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

904 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voices.merlot.org page load time and found that the first response time was 904 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voices.merlot.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

voices.merlot.org

904 ms

gtm.js

49 ms

common-982.min.css

25 ms

wide-sidebar.min.css

24 ms

component.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Voices.merlot.org, 43% (33 requests) were made to Storage.ning.com and 29% (22 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (904 ms) belongs to the original domain Voices.merlot.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

489.7 kB

After Optimization

273.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Voices.merlot.org main page is 489.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 325.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 70.9 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 63.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 37.2 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. Obviously, Voices MERLOT needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 145.5 kB

  • Original 325.0 kB
  • After minification 325.0 kB
  • After compression 179.5 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 145.5 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 800 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Voices.merlot.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (45%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Voices MERLOT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

voices.merlot.org

voices.merlot.org

904 ms

gtm.js

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49 ms

common-982.min.css

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25 ms

wide-sidebar.min.css

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24 ms

component.min.css

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18 ms

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23 ms

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217 ms

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22 ms

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22 ms

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60 ms

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32 ms

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32 ms

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32 ms

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32 ms

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34 ms

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38 ms

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38 ms

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38 ms

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Accessibility Review

voices.merlot.org accessibility score

79

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

voices.merlot.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

voices.merlot.org SEO score

89

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Voices.merlot.org 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 Voices.merlot.org 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

voices.merlot.org

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