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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

Buckingham Nurseries Ltd > Catalog

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

325 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

311 ms

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About Website

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Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centre is a well established family business which is recommended by many gardening correspondents and gardening societies. We have been selling plants by mail order fo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 325 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

325 ms

www.hedging.co.uk

659 ms

index.html

169 ms

nav.js

163 ms

bgc.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk, 91% (115 requests) were made to Hedging.co.uk and 2% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Hedging.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 384.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 7.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Buckingham Nurseries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 347.4 kB

  • Original 526.9 kB
  • After minification 526.5 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 347.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (36%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

78

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buckingham Nurseries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

325 ms

www.hedging.co.uk

www.hedging.co.uk

659 ms

index.html

index.html

169 ms

nav.js

nav.js

163 ms

bgc.css

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168 ms

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486 ms

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163 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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166 ms

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i-search.gif

325 ms

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326 ms

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328 ms

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a-prev.gif

326 ms

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326 ms

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328 ms

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490 ms

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487 ms

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489 ms

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491 ms

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491 ms

a-checkout.gif

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492 ms

logo1.gif

logo1.gif

654 ms

top-curves.gif

top-curves.gif

649 ms

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649 ms

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647 ms

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649 ms

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494 ms

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167 ms

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165 ms

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166 ms

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332 ms

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11 ms

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165 ms

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Accessibility Review

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Buckingham-nurseries.co.uk 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

buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

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