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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

backyardculture.com

Backyard Culture - A comprehensive resource for backyard and outdoor products.

Page Load Speed

20.7 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

20.5 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

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About Website

Welcome to backyardculture.com homepage info - get ready to check Backyard Culture best content right away, or after learning these important things about backyardculture.com

An online resource & shopping catalog for quality backyard living, including outdoor furniture, lighting, pool supplies, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backyardculture.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 20.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

backyardculture.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backyardculture.com

80 ms

www.backyardculture.com

103 ms

styles.css

21 ms

ga.js

14 ms

CobraCoFireplaceFB-6200.jpg

20256 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Backyardculture.com, 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source .

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

108.6 kB

After Optimization

96.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Backyardculture.com main page is 108.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 75.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 11.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 644 B

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 74.5 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. Backyard Culture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 528 B
  • After minification 528 B
  • After compression 425 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. Backyardculture.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

backyardculture.com

backyardculture.com

80 ms

www.backyardculture.com

www.backyardculture.com

103 ms

styles.css

styles.css

21 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

CobraCoFireplaceFB-6200.jpg

CobraCoFireplaceFB-6200.jpg

20256 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

23 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

41 ms

front-patioheater.jpg

front-patioheater.jpg

37 ms

front-cabana.jpg

front-cabana.jpg

55 ms

front-bridge.jpg

front-bridge.jpg

42 ms

front-teak.jpg

front-teak.jpg

42 ms

front-outdoorlight.jpg

front-outdoorlight.jpg

41 ms

front-awning.jpg

front-awning.jpg

55 ms

front-swimmingpool.jpg

front-swimmingpool.jpg

58 ms

front-bbq.jpg

front-bbq.jpg

58 ms

bottom-2.jpg

bottom-2.jpg

60 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

backyardculture.com accessibility score

72

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

backyardculture.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

backyardculture.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Backyardculture.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 Backyardculture.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

backyardculture.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Backyard Culture. 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: