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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

backyardgreenhouses.com

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Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

308 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backyardgreenhouses.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

backyardgreenhouses.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backyardgreenhouses.com

1144 ms

ie4_ns4.js

449 ms

xmljs.asp

779 ms

dynrows.asp

839 ms

styles-body.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Backyardgreenhouses.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Backyardgreenhouses.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 255.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

846.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Backyardgreenhouses.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 567.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 169.6 kB

  • Original 567.8 kB
  • After minification 565.8 kB
  • After compression 398.1 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 169.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 405.3 kB
  • After minification 395.4 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 Greenhouses images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 118.9 kB
  • After minification 117.5 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 67.9 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Backyardgreenhouses.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (11%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Backyard Greenhouses. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

backyardgreenhouses.com

backyardgreenhouses.com

1144 ms

ie4_ns4.js

ie4_ns4.js

449 ms

xmljs.asp

xmljs.asp

779 ms

dynrows.asp

dynrows.asp

839 ms

styles-body.css

styles-body.css

163 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

489 ms

styles.css

styles.css

330 ms

js

js

62 ms

menu_m1_scr.js

menu_m1_scr.js

242 ms

BG.gif

BG.gif

84 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

415 ms

logo.png

logo.png

85 ms

fb.png

fb.png

84 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

243 ms

in.png

in.png

246 ms

flag-us-on.gif

flag-us-on.gif

165 ms

flag-cdn.gif

flag-cdn.gif

165 ms

spacer.png

spacer.png

166 ms

cart-checkout.gif

cart-checkout.gif

247 ms

content-bg.png

content-bg.png

248 ms

learn-how-to-select.gif

learn-how-to-select.gif

248 ms

most-popular-greenhouses.gif

most-popular-greenhouses.gif

323 ms

what-customers-are-saying.gif

what-customers-are-saying.gif

407 ms

GH-Catalog-Button.gif

GH-Catalog-Button.gif

328 ms

design-your-greenhouse.jpg

design-your-greenhouse.jpg

491 ms

home01.jpg

home01.jpg

341 ms

home02.jpg

home02.jpg

502 ms

home03.jpg

home03.jpg

427 ms

home04.jpg

home04.jpg

440 ms

featured-greenhouses.gif

featured-greenhouses.gif

516 ms

legacyth.JPG

legacyth.JPG

514 ms

ann1216th.jpg

ann1216th.jpg

538 ms

path.jpg

path.jpg

533 ms

poly812th.jpg

poly812th.jpg

585 ms

cdn.gif

cdn.gif

582 ms

contact-btn.gif

contact-btn.gif

598 ms

us.gif

us.gif

597 ms

promotions.gif

promotions.gif

615 ms

payment-methods.png

payment-methods.png

619 ms

footer-shadow.gif

footer-shadow.gif

664 ms

ssl.gif

ssl.gif

666 ms

menu_dom.js

menu_dom.js

726 ms

menu-bullet.gif

menu-bullet.gif

92 ms

footer-bg.gif

footer-bg.gif

83 ms

ga.js

ga.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

menu_m1ia.gif

menu_m1ia.gif

83 ms

Accessibility Review

backyardgreenhouses.com accessibility score

54

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

backyardgreenhouses.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

backyardgreenhouses.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Backyardgreenhouses.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 Backyardgreenhouses.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

backyardgreenhouses.com

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