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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

americanhostasociety.org

Home | American Hosta Society AHS | Become a Member

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

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About Website

Welcome to americanhostasociety.org homepage info - get ready to check American Hosta Society best content right away, or after learning these important things about americanhostasociety.org

Official home of the American Hosta Society AHS website. Articles, resources, and information about hostas, shade gardening and how to grow hostas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanhostasociety.org page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanhostasociety.org performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanhostasociety.org

112 ms

americanhostasociety.org

3132 ms

js

58 ms

style.min.css

120 ms

reset.css

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Americanhostasociety.org, 18% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Americanhostasociety.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (33%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americanhostasociety.org main page is 4.0 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 38.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 740.5 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, American Hosta Society needs image optimization as it can save up to 740.5 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 207.1 kB

  • Original 372.8 kB
  • After minification 333.3 kB
  • After compression 165.7 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 207.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 320.5 kB

  • Original 369.6 kB
  • After minification 352.5 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. Americanhostasociety.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (58%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Hosta Society. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americanhostasociety.org

americanhostasociety.org

112 ms

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americanhostasociety.org

3132 ms

js

js

58 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

120 ms

reset.css

reset.css

117 ms

animsition.min.css

animsition.min.css

151 ms

animations.css

animations.css

165 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

205 ms

style.css

style.css

180 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

wonderpluginlightbox.js

wonderpluginlightbox.js

247 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

136 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

162 ms

smoothScroll.min.js

smoothScroll.min.js

166 ms

css3-animate-it.js

css3-animate-it.js

168 ms

animsition.min.js

animsition.min.js

187 ms

js.cookie.js

js.cookie.js

192 ms

jquery.selectric.js

jquery.selectric.js

196 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

197 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

205 ms

jquery.site.js

jquery.site.js

211 ms

wrs1bxq.css

wrs1bxq.css

86 ms

p.css

p.css

36 ms

widgets-background.png

widgets-background.png

462 ms

footer-background.png

footer-background.png

178 ms

froogaloop2.min.js

froogaloop2.min.js

33 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

66 ms

mhfontello.css

mhfontello.css

33 ms

loading.svg

loading.svg

43 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

44 ms

logo-mobile.svg

logo-mobile.svg

59 ms

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IMG_9557-2-540x540.jpeg

102 ms

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280 ms

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145 ms

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119 ms

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193 ms

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237 ms

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331 ms

logo-footer.svg

logo-footer.svg

196 ms

IMG_2238.jpg

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267 ms

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310 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

americanhostasociety.org accessibility score

72

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

americanhostasociety.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americanhostasociety.org SEO score

100

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

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 Americanhostasociety.org 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 Americanhostasociety.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

americanhostasociety.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of American Hosta Society. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: