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grownorthern.com

GN | Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights Manfactured in the UK

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

308 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Grow Northern content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about grownorthern.com

At GN, we manufacture commercial LED grow lights for producing optimal plant growth in greenhouses and indoor horticultural platforms.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grownorthern.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grownorthern.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.grownorthern.com

2412 ms

calendar-win2k-1.css

130 ms

addons.css

133 ms

layout.css

130 ms

colorbox.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Grownorthern.com, 1% (1 request) were made to V2.zopim.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Grownorthern.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 824.6 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

431.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Grownorthern.com 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 724.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 46.4 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 7.0 kB, which is 13% 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 44.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 263.7 kB
  • After minification 240.0 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. Grow Northern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 577.3 kB

  • Original 724.7 kB
  • After minification 523.6 kB
  • After compression 147.4 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 577.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 179.6 kB

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 156.6 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. Grownorthern.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 179.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (64%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grow Northern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.grownorthern.com

www.grownorthern.com

2412 ms

calendar-win2k-1.css

calendar-win2k-1.css

130 ms

addons.css

addons.css

133 ms

layout.css

layout.css

130 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

147 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

148 ms

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188 ms

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187 ms

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380 ms

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188 ms

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615 ms

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754 ms

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623 ms

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126 ms

SEO Factors

grownorthern.com SEO score

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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 Grownorthern.com 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 Grownorthern.com 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

grownorthern.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Grow Northern. 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: