Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

oakleafgardening.com

Gardening Tips and Advice – Plant Indentification – Oak Leaf Gardening

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

982 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

About Website

Visit oakleafgardening.com now to see the best up-to-date Oak Leaf Gardening content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about oakleafgardening.com

Oak Leaf Gardening – the home of gardening information and inspiration. Find plants, identify pests, visit gardens or join our forum to get/give advice.

Visit oakleafgardening.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Oakleafgardening.com page load time and found that the first response time was 982 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oakleafgardening.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.oakleafgardening.com

982 ms

style.css

100 ms

styles.css

166 ms

nggallery.css

166 ms

shutter-reloaded.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Oakleafgardening.com, 23% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (982 ms) belongs to the original domain Oakleafgardening.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oakleafgardening.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 666.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 23.5 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 17.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 666.5 kB
  • After minification 656.7 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. Oak Leaf Gardening images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 535.6 kB
  • After minification 535.6 kB
  • After compression 526.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Oakleafgardening.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (67%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oak Leaf Gardening. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 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

oakleafgardening.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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>).

Best Practices

oakleafgardening.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

oakleafgardening.com SEO score

71

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

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 Oakleafgardening.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 Oakleafgardening.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 Oak Leaf Gardening. 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: