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my.gardenguides.com

Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

Welcome to my.gardenguides.com homepage info - get ready to check My Garden Guides best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about my.gardenguides.com

Learn about gardening on GardenGuides.com. How to grow plants, start a garden, get gardening tips or find supplies. Join the community and connect with gardeners with similar growing interests. Photos...

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.gardenguides.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

my.gardenguides.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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149 ms

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Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original My.gardenguides.com, 41% (54 requests) were made to I.ggimgs.net and 11% (14 requests) were made to Images.intellitxt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (612 ms) relates to the external source Gardenguides.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (58%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

907.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.gardenguides.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 158.5 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 193.0 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 158.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 452.1 kB
  • After minification 440.3 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. My Garden Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 908.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 381.2 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 908.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 194.9 kB

  • Original 232.4 kB
  • After minification 194.8 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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. My.gardenguides.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (58%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Garden Guides. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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SEO Factors

my.gardenguides.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 My.gardenguides.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 My.gardenguides.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

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