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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

gardendesignforliving.com

Everything you need to transform your yard into a backyard paradise!

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardendesignforliving.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardendesignforliving.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardendesignforliving.com

1208 ms

style.css

127 ms

dashicons.min.css

185 ms

thickbox.css

129 ms

public.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Gardendesignforliving.com, 11% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gardendesignforliving.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 463.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardendesignforliving.com main page is 3.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 332.1 kB

  • Original 396.2 kB
  • After minification 390.2 kB
  • After compression 64.2 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 332.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Gardendesignforliving images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. Gardendesignforliving.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (21%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

70

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gardendesignforliving. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gardendesignforliving.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gardendesignforliving.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

gardendesignforliving.com SEO score

71

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

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 Gardendesignforliving.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 Gardendesignforliving.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

gardendesignforliving.com

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