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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gardenadvice.co.uk

GardenAdvice - Home of gardening knowledge and MyGardenTeam

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gardenadvice.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Garden Advice best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about gardenadvice.co.uk

Gardening advice from horticultural specialists in plants and gardens, plus gardening experts with our MyGardenTeam service and gardening courses for beginners

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenadvice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardenadvice.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardenadvice.co.uk

340 ms

gardenadvice.co.uk

1048 ms

css

48 ms

dashicons.min.css

43 ms

thickbox.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenadvice.co.uk, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gardenadvice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

997.9 kB

After Optimization

819.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gardenadvice.co.uk main page is 997.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 757.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 177.8 kB

  • Original 214.3 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 177.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 450 B

  • Original 757.8 kB
  • After minification 757.3 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. Garden Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 25.9 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (60%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gardenadvice.co.uk

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340 ms

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1048 ms

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48 ms

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63 ms

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63 ms

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60 ms

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85 ms

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93 ms

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97 ms

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96 ms

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104 ms

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111 ms

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120 ms

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154 ms

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182 ms

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31 ms

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125 ms

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136 ms

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170 ms

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172 ms

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166 ms

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166 ms

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198 ms

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202 ms

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204 ms

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216 ms

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57 ms

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207 ms

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209 ms

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332 ms

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333 ms

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332 ms

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334 ms

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333 ms

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405 ms

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404 ms

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401 ms

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357 ms

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390 ms

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361 ms

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36 ms

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221 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenadvice.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

gardenadvice.co.uk 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

gardenadvice.co.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gardenadvice.co.uk 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 Gardenadvice.co.uk 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

gardenadvice.co.uk

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