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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

Garden Machinery Direct - Garden Machinery Direct.co.uk

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

410 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Garden Machinery Direct content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

Garden Machinery Direct is the UK’s leading supplier of garden machinery and equipment, supplying products from top brands such as STIHL, Husqvarna and Honda.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 410 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.25

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

410 ms

4185aeaea7b398910b9315d39540a192.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.css.php

92 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js.php

244 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.min.js.php

322 ms

3b7ddb8415da820bae0119613cb30501.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.functions.js.php

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (704 ms) belongs to the original domain Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 791.9 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

508.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 701.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 42.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 353.5 kB

  • Original 701.0 kB
  • After minification 347.5 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, Garden Machinery Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 353.5 kB or 50% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 322.7 kB

  • Original 458.4 kB
  • After minification 446.3 kB
  • After compression 135.7 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 322.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (33%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Machinery Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

www.gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

410 ms

4185aeaea7b398910b9315d39540a192.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.css.php

4185aeaea7b398910b9315d39540a192.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.css.php

92 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js.php

jquery-1.7.2.min.js.php

244 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.min.js.php

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.min.js.php

322 ms

3b7ddb8415da820bae0119613cb30501.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.functions.js.php

3b7ddb8415da820bae0119613cb30501.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.functions.js.php

261 ms

213cd2df7ee7a7a09659a3dd7e069261.menu.js.php

213cd2df7ee7a7a09659a3dd7e069261.menu.js.php

169 ms

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

28 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

background-gradient.png

background-gradient.png

167 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

170 ms

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

100 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

30 ms

ga.js

ga.js

38 ms

tp-1.png

tp-1.png

109 ms

4185aeaea7b398910b9315d39540a192.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.css.php

4185aeaea7b398910b9315d39540a192.gmd-reduxv2-competition-new-year.css.php

111 ms

nu-gmd-stihl-banner.png

nu-gmd-stihl-banner.png

704 ms

dept-img-handhelds.jpg

dept-img-handhelds.jpg

109 ms

dept-img-lawncare.jpg

dept-img-lawncare.jpg

146 ms

dept-img-groundcare.jpg

dept-img-groundcare.jpg

168 ms

dept-img-hedges.jpg

dept-img-hedges.jpg

172 ms

dept-img-farming.jpg

dept-img-farming.jpg

179 ms

dept-img-treecare.jpg

dept-img-treecare.jpg

200 ms

dept-img-sitework.jpg

dept-img-sitework.jpg

211 ms

dept-img-accessories.jpg

dept-img-accessories.jpg

250 ms

dept-img-cordless.jpg

dept-img-cordless.jpg

254 ms

husqvarna-125b-blower.jpg

husqvarna-125b-blower.jpg

259 ms

spacerv.gif

spacerv.gif

290 ms

51R-tHKQF3L._SY355_.jpg

51R-tHKQF3L._SY355_.jpg

297 ms

label.php

label.php

338 ms

stihl-blower-bg56ce.jpg

stihl-blower-bg56ce.jpg

335 ms

spacerh.gif

spacerh.gif

341 ms

1421928677922_129r.jpg

1421928677922_129r.jpg

365 ms

echo-hedge-trimmer-hc-156.jpg

echo-hedge-trimmer-hc-156.jpg

386 ms

husqvarna-125bvx-blower.jpg

husqvarna-125bvx-blower.jpg

420 ms

stihl-electric-blower-she71..jpg

stihl-electric-blower-she71..jpg

422 ms

473vs.jpg

473vs.jpg

424 ms

delivery-icon.gif

delivery-icon.gif

449 ms

shipping-icon.gif

shipping-icon.gif

469 ms

phone-icon.gif

phone-icon.gif

502 ms

phone-number.png

phone-number.png

503 ms

husqvarna-installation-kit.jpeg

husqvarna-installation-kit.jpeg

507 ms

remote.jpg.ashx31.jpg

remote.jpg.ashx31.jpg

536 ms

ca2426278caa49e4b2cfc56139ed4e76.jpg

ca2426278caa49e4b2cfc56139ed4e76.jpg

555 ms

methods-of-payment.png

methods-of-payment.png

585 ms

gmd-logo-redux.png

gmd-logo-redux.png

661 ms

sale-hi.png

sale-hi.png

589 ms

basket-icon-heder.gif

basket-icon-heder.gif

618 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

53 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

49 ms

Blueparker-020614.woff

Blueparker-020614.woff

588 ms

collect

collect

62 ms

account-icon-heder.gif

account-icon-heder.gif

564 ms

winter-icon-heder.gif

winter-icon-heder.gif

563 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

42 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

85 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk accessibility score

57

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gardenmachinerydirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Garden Machinery Direct. 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: