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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gardenmaster.co.za

Garden Master – Gardening Tools, Water Storage and Watering Tools

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

775 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

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About Website

Visit gardenmaster.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Garden Master content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gardenmaster.co.za

Gardening and continually striving for the improvement of product design and innovation, Garden Master offers a comprehensive range of gardening tools...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenmaster.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 775 ms and then it took 5.3 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

gardenmaster.co.za performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.372

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardenmaster.co.za

775 ms

containerstyles.css

247 ms

scripts.js

492 ms

ieupdate.js

493 ms

jquery.js

739 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenmaster.co.za, 12% (8 requests) were made to Fineclient.co.za and 12% (8 requests) were made to Cmsignition.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Cmsignition.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardenmaster.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 972.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 19.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 972.1 kB
  • After minification 929.2 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 Master images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 173.5 kB
  • After minification 167.2 kB
  • After compression 67.0 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 106.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. Gardenmaster.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (41%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Master. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gardenmaster.co.za

gardenmaster.co.za

775 ms

containerstyles.css

containerstyles.css

247 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

492 ms

ieupdate.js

ieupdate.js

493 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

739 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

491 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

506 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

506 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

734 ms

shadowbox.js

shadowbox.js

981 ms

all.js

all.js

9 ms

screen_gen.css

screen_gen.css

492 ms

menustyles.css

menustyles.css

515 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

517 ms

Capture_00118_12x20_fittings_large_1456819604_thumbnail.jpg

Capture_00118_12x20_fittings_large_1456819604_thumbnail.jpg

714 ms

grass_bg.gif

grass_bg.gif

740 ms

summer_top.jpg

summer_top.jpg

1012 ms

green_strip.gif

green_strip.gif

251 ms

logo.png

logo.png

247 ms

joinFacebook.png

joinFacebook.png

248 ms

submit.gif

submit.gif

255 ms

Garden-Makeover-Winner.jpg

Garden-Makeover-Winner.jpg

732 ms

prod_top02.gif

prod_top02.gif

492 ms

prod_bot02.gif

prod_bot02.gif

493 ms

garden_club.jpg

garden_club.jpg

758 ms

trans.gif

trans.gif

736 ms

drought_tolerant_plants_thumbnail.png

drought_tolerant_plants_thumbnail.png

715 ms

COMPOST_thumbnail.jpg

COMPOST_thumbnail.jpg

716 ms

topnav_sprite.png

topnav_sprite.png

952 ms

content_top.png

content_top.png

947 ms

content_mid.png

content_mid.png

950 ms

head_welcome.gif

head_welcome.gif

952 ms

head_latestnews.gif

head_latestnews.gif

982 ms

searchbg.gif

searchbg.gif

1190 ms

content_div.gif

content_div.gif

1194 ms

head_makeover_index.gif

head_makeover_index.gif

1196 ms

head_featured_product_1.gif

head_featured_product_1.gif

1197 ms

cycleBg.jpg

cycleBg.jpg

1232 ms

readmore.gif

readmore.gif

1234 ms

head_sub_faq.gif

head_sub_faq.gif

1433 ms

head_productrange.gif

head_productrange.gif

1436 ms

prodrange_head.gif

prodrange_head.gif

1440 ms

prodrange_mid.gif

prodrange_mid.gif

1442 ms

product_cover.png

product_cover.png

1484 ms

gardenfoot.png

gardenfoot.png

1990 ms

prod2.jpg

prod2.jpg

689 ms

prod3.jpg

prod3.jpg

694 ms

prod5.jpg

prod5.jpg

696 ms

prod4.jpg

prod4.jpg

899 ms

Accessories_Small_thumbnail.jpg

Accessories_Small_thumbnail.jpg

905 ms

156 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

107 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

164 ms

collect

collect

7 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

like.php

like.php

109 ms

qeKvIRsJabD.js

qeKvIRsJabD.js

133 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

145 ms

Capture_00118_12x20_fittings_large_1456819604_thumbnail.jpg

Capture_00118_12x20_fittings_large_1456819604_thumbnail.jpg

1138 ms

drought_tolerant_plants_thumbnail.png

drought_tolerant_plants_thumbnail.png

1176 ms

COMPOST_thumbnail.jpg

COMPOST_thumbnail.jpg

2518 ms

prod2.jpg

prod2.jpg

696 ms

prod3.jpg

prod3.jpg

696 ms

prod5.jpg

prod5.jpg

695 ms

prod4.jpg

prod4.jpg

716 ms

Accessories_Small_thumbnail.jpg

Accessories_Small_thumbnail.jpg

715 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenmaster.co.za accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gardenmaster.co.za 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gardenmaster.co.za SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gardenmaster.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gardenmaster.co.za 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

gardenmaster.co.za

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