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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

greatbritishgardens.co.uk

500 Amazing Gardens near me to visit in England Scotland and Wales - Great British Gardens

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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About Website

Visit greatbritishgardens.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Great British Gardens content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about greatbritishgardens.co.uk

Over 500 open beautiful gardens and places to visit near me and things to do on your days out with the family in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatbritishgardens.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatbritishgardens.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.452

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatbritishgardens.co.uk

59 ms

greatbritishgardens.co.uk

573 ms

jquery.min.js

51 ms

widgetkit-994b28bc.css

298 ms

widgetkit-7deac0ab.js

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Greatbritishgardens.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Analytics.zpos.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Greatbritishgardens.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatbritishgardens.co.uk main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 29.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Great British Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 158.7 kB
  • After minification 158.7 kB
  • After compression 112.8 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 45.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. Greatbritishgardens.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (23%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great British Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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greatbritishgardens.co.uk

59 ms

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573 ms

jquery.min.js

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51 ms

widgetkit-994b28bc.css

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298 ms

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370 ms

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568 ms

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390 ms

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461 ms

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302 ms

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575 ms

theme.js

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594 ms

addtohomescreen.css

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648 ms

addtohomescreen.js

addtohomescreen.js

753 ms

js

js

62 ms

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73 ms

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888 ms

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912 ms

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893 ms

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523 ms

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668 ms

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568 ms

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568 ms

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615 ms

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570 ms

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812 ms

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811 ms

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840 ms

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852 ms

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967 ms

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977 ms

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1085 ms

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1342 ms

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1108 ms

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1566 ms

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1522 ms

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2526 ms

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2440 ms

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2585 ms

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3444 ms

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3446 ms

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3453 ms

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4418 ms

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4449 ms

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4458 ms

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3983 ms

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4317 ms

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43 ms

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19 ms

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55 ms

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piwik.php

215 ms

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280 ms

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530 ms

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528 ms

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589 ms

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557 ms

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792 ms

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960 ms

Accessibility Review

greatbritishgardens.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

greatbritishgardens.co.uk 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

greatbritishgardens.co.uk SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

greatbritishgardens.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great British Gardens. 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: