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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sugarcreekgardens.com

Sugar Creek Gardens St. Louis Garden Center Nursery Spring 2024 - Sugar Creek Gardens

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sugarcreekgardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sugarcreekgardens.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sugarcreekgardens.com

65 ms

sugarcreekgardens.com

868 ms

autoptimize_11f60cb3ca6c3d36ad2be3ea99331380.css

197 ms

autoptimize_single_ae27a259f85924824fd2593d795bee03.css

138 ms

dashicons.min.css

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Sugarcreekgardens.com, 24% (25 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sugarcreekgardens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (18%)

Content Size

13.0 MB

After Optimization

10.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sugarcreekgardens.com main page is 13.0 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 10.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 167.5 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 144.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 241.2 kB

  • Original 10.0 MB
  • After minification 9.8 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. Sugar Creek Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 902.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 597.8 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 902.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 212.4 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. Sugarcreekgardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (68%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sugar Creek Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sugarcreekgardens.com accessibility score

86

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

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sugarcreekgardens.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

SEO Factors

sugarcreekgardens.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sugarcreekgardens.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 Sugarcreekgardens.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 Sugar Creek Gardens. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: