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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

plant-biology.com

Plant Biology Advice - Information on botany, plants, and plant molecular biology

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Plant Biology content for Philippines. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about plant-biology.com

Welcome to Plant Biology Advice (PBA). The place to come for information on all things plant! The site carries college level articles on plant biology, plant diagrams, and lab techniques.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plant-biology.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plant-biology.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plant-biology.com

181 ms

www.plant-biology.com

437 ms

gardenflowers.css

82 ms

plusone.js

44 ms

adsbygoogle.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Plant-biology.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (437 ms) belongs to the original domain Plant-biology.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

641.0 kB

After Optimization

460.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plant-biology.com main page is 641.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 499.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 10.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 123.9 kB
  • After minification 122.0 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. Plant Biology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 166.5 kB

  • Original 499.9 kB
  • After minification 499.9 kB
  • After compression 333.4 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 166.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 625 B

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. Plant-biology.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (36%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Biology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

plant-biology.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

plant-biology.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

plant-biology.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Plant-biology.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 Plant-biology.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Plant Biology. 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: