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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

cotswoldseeds.com

Conventional and Organic mixes and straights | Cotswold Grass Seeds

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

545 ms

About Website

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Next day delivery of grass seeds including, legumes, herbs, wildflower and environmental mixes for conventional and organic livestock and arable farmers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cotswoldseeds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cotswoldseeds.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cotswoldseeds.com

205 ms

cotswoldseeds.com

1869 ms

css

38 ms

pure-min.css

151 ms

grids-responsive-min.css

284 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Cotswoldseeds.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Cotswoldseeds.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 433.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

9.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cotswoldseeds.com main page is 9.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 27.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 392.1 kB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Cotswold Seeds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 91.2 kB
  • After minification 91.2 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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

-38%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Cotswoldseeds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.3 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (32%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cotswold Seeds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 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

cotswoldseeds.com accessibility score

77

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.

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

cotswoldseeds.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cotswoldseeds.com SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • 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 Cotswoldseeds.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Cotswoldseeds.com 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

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