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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

backyardboss.net

Backyard Boss: Gardening, Backyard projects, Landscaping, Outdoor living, and more!

Page Load Speed

27.6 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

744 ms

Page Rendered

26.8 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backyardboss.net page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 27.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

backyardboss.net performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backyardboss.net

8 ms

www.backyardboss.net

104 ms

api.js

52 ms

worker-caller.94c4ebfe.js

15 ms

js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Backyardboss.net, 66% (46 requests) were made to Static1.backyardbossimages.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Static1.backyardbossimages.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 709.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

32.6 MB

After Optimization

31.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Backyardboss.net main page is 32.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 31.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 708.8 kB

  • Original 805.6 kB
  • After minification 674.0 kB
  • After compression 96.9 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 131.7 kB, which is 16% 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 708.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.6 MB
  • After minification 31.6 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. Backyard Boss images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 237.8 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 236.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (24%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

50

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Backyard Boss. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

backyardboss.net accessibility score

93

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

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

backyardboss.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

backyardboss.net SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Backyardboss.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 Backyardboss.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 data is detected on the main page of Backyard Boss. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: