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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

covercrop.org

Cover Crop Guide for NY Growers – Dr. Thomas Björkman, Horticulture Section, Cornell AgriTech

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Covercrop.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 4.9 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

covercrop.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

covercrop.org

1959 ms

js

70 ms

style.min.css

59 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

12 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Covercrop.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Covercrop.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 859.8 kB (79%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

224.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Covercrop.org 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 620.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 41.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 127 B

  • Original 848 B
  • After minification 721 B

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. Obviously, Cover Crop needs image optimization as it can save up to 127 B or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 292.2 kB

  • Original 408.8 kB
  • After minification 360.0 kB
  • After compression 116.6 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 292.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 526.3 kB

  • Original 620.5 kB
  • After minification 574.4 kB
  • After compression 94.2 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. Covercrop.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 526.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (83%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cover Crop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

covercrop.org

covercrop.org

1959 ms

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70 ms

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59 ms

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12 ms

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21 ms

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31 ms

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35 ms

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39 ms

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40 ms

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49 ms

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115 ms

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167 ms

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547 ms

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46 ms

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12 ms

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28 ms

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31 ms

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43 ms

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45 ms

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44 ms

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45 ms

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45 ms

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46 ms

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46 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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55 ms

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Accessibility Review

covercrop.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

covercrop.org 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

covercrop.org SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Covercrop.org 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 Covercrop.org 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

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