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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

gardeners-directory.co.uk

Gardeners Directory - Garden Services, Garden Suppliers and Gardening Blog

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

Visit gardeners-directory.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Gardeners Directory content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gardeners-directory.co.uk

The Gardeners Directory is a mobile friendly directory of gardeners, garden service providers and garden suppliers within the United Kingdom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardeners-directory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardeners-directory.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardeners-directory.co.uk

219 ms

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

186 ms

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

416 ms

css

39 ms

slideshow.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Gardeners-directory.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (418 ms) belongs to the original domain Gardeners-directory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.9 kB (35%)

Content Size

517.8 kB

After Optimization

334.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardeners-directory.co.uk main page is 517.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 409.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 15.3 kB, which is 38% 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 33.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 20.9 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. Obviously, Gardeners Directory needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.2 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 105.8 kB

  • Original 409.0 kB
  • After minification 392.4 kB
  • After compression 303.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 105.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Gardeners-directory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (59%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gardeners Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gardeners-directory.co.uk

gardeners-directory.co.uk

219 ms

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

186 ms

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

www.gardeners-directory.co.uk

416 ms

css

css

39 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

83 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

166 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

243 ms

stylesheet

stylesheet

309 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

246 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

409 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

418 ms

jquery.slides.min.js

jquery.slides.min.js

252 ms

js

js

74 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

55 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

28 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

93 ms

gardeners_directory-logo.png

gardeners_directory-logo.png

92 ms

payments-by-paypal.jpg

payments-by-paypal.jpg

94 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

93 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

91 ms

google.png

google.png

92 ms

logo-silverside.png

logo-silverside.png

116 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

77 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

cm

cm

11 ms

js

js

65 ms

Accessibility Review

gardeners-directory.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gardeners-directory.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gardeners-directory.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Gardeners-directory.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 Gardeners-directory.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

gardeners-directory.co.uk

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