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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

smallgardennews.com

Small Garden News – For your organic garden

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

Welcome to smallgardennews.com homepage info - get ready to check Small Garden News best content right away, or after learning these important things about smallgardennews.com

Organic garden news and information to help you grow organic vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs, for small gardens, small yards, the Southern U.S, and Southeast U.S.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smallgardennews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smallgardennews.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smallgardennews.com

201 ms

www.smallgardennews.com

1779 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

126 ms

style.css

128 ms

style.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Smallgardennews.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Smallgardennews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 340.4 kB (39%)

Content Size

878.8 kB

After Optimization

538.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smallgardennews.com main page is 878.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 389.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 37.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 389.0 kB
  • After minification 380.3 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. Small Garden News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 26.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 267.4 kB

  • Original 376.3 kB
  • After minification 366.1 kB
  • After compression 108.9 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. Smallgardennews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (61%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Small Garden News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

smallgardennews.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

smallgardennews.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

smallgardennews.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smallgardennews.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 Smallgardennews.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 data is detected on the main page of Small Garden News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: