Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gaiaherbs.com

Gaia Herbs® Official Site: Herbal Supplements & More

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

gaiaherbs.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gaiaherbs.com homepage info - get ready to check Gaia Herbs best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about gaiaherbs.com

Connecting plants and people since 1987. Shop a leading herbal supplement brand, focused on organic farming from soil to shelf. FREE shipping over $64.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gaiaherbs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 2.6 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

gaiaherbs.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,240 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gaiaherbs.com

163 ms

D8iqMRHNuESKiA.js

131 ms

10045987-10046154.js

256 ms

theme.css

63 ms

luo7xuz.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Gaiaherbs.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (379 ms) belongs to the original domain Gaiaherbs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 344.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Gaiaherbs.com main page is 3.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 264.1 kB

  • Original 334.7 kB
  • After minification 298.6 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.1 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 264.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 79.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Gaia Herbs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 412 B

  • Original 302.2 kB
  • After minification 302.2 kB
  • After compression 301.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 95.7 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. Gaiaherbs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (49%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gaia Herbs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gaiaherbs.com accessibility score

94

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

gaiaherbs.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gaiaherbs.com SEO score

85

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

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 Gaiaherbs.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 Gaiaherbs.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

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