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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

burpee.com

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

338 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Burpee.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

burpee.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homepage

210 ms

fonts.css

57 ms

style.css

13 ms

css

70 ms

bvapi.js

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Burpee.com, 52% (106 requests) were made to Demandware.edgesuite.net and 14% (29 requests) were made to Network.bazaarvoice.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (437 ms) relates to the external source Mediacdn.espssl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (29%)

Content Size

9.8 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Burpee.com main page is 9.8 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 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 281.0 kB

  • Original 315.4 kB
  • After minification 303.2 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 281.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Burpee images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 685.3 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 1.7 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 797.2 kB

  • Original 958.0 kB
  • After minification 957.5 kB
  • After compression 160.8 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. Burpee.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 797.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (40%)

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

115

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Burpee. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

burpee.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

burpee.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

burpee.com SEO score

84

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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