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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

blacksgardencentre.com

Home Black's Garden Centre Garden Supplies Drogheda Louth

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

742 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to blacksgardencentre.com homepage info - get ready to check Black S Garden Centre best content right away, or after learning these important things about blacksgardencentre.com

Home Black's Garden Centre was set up in 1962 by Donal Black to provide his local customers with quite a unique service at the time

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blacksgardencentre.com page load time and found that the first response time was 742 ms and then it took 4.5 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

blacksgardencentre.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.994

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blacksgardencentre.com

742 ms

iubenda_cs.js

52 ms

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121 ms

css2

53 ms

foundation.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Blacksgardencentre.com, 22% (24 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Blacksgardencentre.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blacksgardencentre.com main page is 5.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 103.9 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 94.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 294.7 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Black S Garden Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 415.7 kB
  • After minification 415.7 kB
  • After compression 410.7 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Blacksgardencentre.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (51%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

50

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black S Garden Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blacksgardencentre.com accessibility score

88

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

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

blacksgardencentre.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blacksgardencentre.com SEO score

83

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

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 Blacksgardencentre.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 Blacksgardencentre.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

blacksgardencentre.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Black S Garden Centre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: