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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

alfalfa.org

Welcome to the National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance

Page Load Speed

493 ms in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

215 ms

Page Rendered

200 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Alfalfa content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about alfalfa.org

The National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance is an alliance between the growers, genetic suppliers and university segments of the alfalfa and alfalfa seed industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alfalfa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 415 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alfalfa.org performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alfalfa.org

78 ms

index.css

31 ms

Fieldbackground(new).jpg

40 ms

LogoNew.gif

79 ms

homepics.jpg

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Alfalfa.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (79 ms) belongs to the original domain Alfalfa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

112.1 kB

After Optimization

87.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alfalfa.org main page is 112.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 82.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.2 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 843 B

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 81.7 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. Alfalfa images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. Alfalfa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alfalfa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

alfalfa.org

alfalfa.org

78 ms

index.css

index.css

31 ms

Fieldbackground(new).jpg

Fieldbackground(new).jpg

40 ms

LogoNew.gif

LogoNew.gif

79 ms

homepics.jpg

homepics.jpg

65 ms

Accessibility Review

alfalfa.org accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alfalfa.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

alfalfa.org SEO score

67

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

alfalfa.org

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