Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ecologicalgardening.net

ecological gardening

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

Visit ecologicalgardening.net now to see the best up-to-date Ecological Gardening content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ecologicalgardening.net

Ecological Gardening features informative posts about native plant gardening, landscape restoration, and other relevant topics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecologicalgardening.net page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 6 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

ecologicalgardening.net performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,390 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecologicalgardening.net

60 ms

www.ecologicalgardening.net

780 ms

webfont.js

58 ms

3375562265-css_bundle_v2.css

90 ms

gsearch.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ecologicalgardening.net, 22% (31 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (13 requests) were made to 3.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (869 ms) relates to the external source Krehbielart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 368.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Ecologicalgardening.net main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 217.6 kB

  • Original 285.2 kB
  • After minification 283.7 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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 217.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Ecological Gardening images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 148.1 kB
  • After minification 141.3 kB
  • After compression 118.1 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 29.9 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 81.4 kB

  • Original 105.1 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Ecologicalgardening.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (48%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

71

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecological Gardening. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ecologicalgardening.net accessibility score

87

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ecologicalgardening.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ecologicalgardening.net SEO score

82

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

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ecologicalgardening.net 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 Ecologicalgardening.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Ecological Gardening. 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: