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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

thegardenist.com.au

The Gardenist | The official website for Michael McCoy

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

683 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

About Website

Visit thegardenist.com.au now to see the best up-to-date The Gardenist content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thegardenist.com.au

Welcome to The Gardenist, a place for hungry, thinking gardeners with an appetite for collective knowledge and enquiry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegardenist.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 683 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegardenist.com.au performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegardenist.com.au

683 ms

thegardenist.com.au

1109 ms

gardenist-navbar-1px.png

890 ms

gardenist-logo-navbar.png

942 ms

home-banner-1.jpg

1970 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thegardenist.com.au, 88% (14 requests) were made to Thegardenist.b-cdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Thegardenist.b-cdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Thegardenist.com.au main page is 4.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 76.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. The Gardenist images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gardenist. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thegardenist.com.au accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

thegardenist.com.au 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

thegardenist.com.au 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

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

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Thegardenist.com.au 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 Thegardenist.com.au 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 The Gardenist. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: