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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

betterfarming.com

Better Farming | Keeping Canadian Farmers and Agriculture Professionals Connected with News, Information and Resources

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

906 ms

Page Rendered

130 ms

About Website

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Better Farming is the trusted commercial agriculture news and information source for Canadian crop and livestock producers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betterfarming.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betterfarming.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,760 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

betterfarming.com

88 ms

www.betterfarming.com

404 ms

css

59 ms

bootstrap.min.css

64 ms

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39 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Betterfarming.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (404 ms) belongs to the original domain Betterfarming.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

505.8 kB

After Optimization

475.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Betterfarming.com main page is 505.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 287.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 23.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 177.7 kB
  • After minification 171.1 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. Better Farming images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 453 B

  • Original 287.5 kB
  • After minification 287.5 kB
  • After compression 287.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 57 B

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Betterfarming.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (52%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Better Farming. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

betterfarming.com 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.

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

betterfarming.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

betterfarming.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Betterfarming.com 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 Betterfarming.com 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 Better Farming. 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: