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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

garlicgrowers.co.za

Garlic Growers | Certified Garlic Seed Supplier Since 1993 | South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

712 ms

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About Website

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Garlic Growers is southern Africa's original commercial garlic seed supplier, trading since 1993. Certified virus-tested Egyptian Pink, Egyptian White, Spanish White and Super Giant White (elephant) p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Garlicgrowers.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.4 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

garlicgrowers.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

garlicgrowers.co.za

1179 ms

defer-md.css

1186 ms

menu.js

1200 ms

sm.css

1510 ms

md.css

1213 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Garlicgrowers.co.za, 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Garlicgrowers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

301.0 kB

After Optimization

254.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Garlicgrowers.co.za main page is 301.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 193.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.2 kB, which is 21% 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 44.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 193.5 kB
  • After minification 193.5 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. Garlic Growers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 165 B
  • After minification 165 B
  • After compression 153 B

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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 50.3 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. Garlicgrowers.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garlic Growers. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

garlicgrowers.co.za

garlicgrowers.co.za

1179 ms

defer-md.css

defer-md.css

1186 ms

menu.js

menu.js

1200 ms

sm.css

sm.css

1510 ms

md.css

md.css

1213 ms

lg.css

lg.css

1218 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1233 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

283 ms

egyptian-pink.webp

egyptian-pink.webp

648 ms

spanish.webp

spanish.webp

653 ms

egyptian-white.webp

egyptian-white.webp

659 ms

elephant.webp

elephant.webp

674 ms

garlic-field.jpg

garlic-field.jpg

610 ms

garlic-cloves.jpg

garlic-cloves.jpg

1215 ms

aos.css

aos.css

297 ms

defer-sm.css

defer-sm.css

306 ms

Accessibility Review

garlicgrowers.co.za accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

garlicgrowers.co.za best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

garlicgrowers.co.za SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Garlicgrowers.co.za 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 Garlicgrowers.co.za 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

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