Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

plantswap.net

Plants & Flowers - SERP

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

830 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Plants Wap content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about plantswap.net

Gardening forum and photo gallery where gardeners can organize plant swaps and trade plants and seeds.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plantswap.net page load time and found that the first response time was 830 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plantswap.net performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plantswap.net

830 ms

vbulletin_important.css

137 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

338 ms

connection-min.js

270 ms

vbulletin_global.js

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 178 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Plantswap.net, 7% (12 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net and 5% (9 requests) were made to 9583.http.cdn.softlayer.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) belongs to the original domain Plantswap.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 743.5 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

508.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Plantswap.net main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 889.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 173.8 kB

  • Original 209.1 kB
  • After minification 206.7 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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 173.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 149.4 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. Plants Wap images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 565.5 kB

  • Original 889.4 kB
  • After minification 874.4 kB
  • After compression 323.8 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 565.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 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. Plantswap.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (67%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plants Wap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

plantswap.net accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

plantswap.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

plantswap.net SEO score

76

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Plantswap.net 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 Plantswap.net 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

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