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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

578 ms

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About Website

Visit helpfulgardener.com now to see the best up-to-date Helpful Gardener content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about helpfulgardener.com

Gardening articles written by a Master Gardener and a lifetime gardener. Improve your garden now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helpfulgardener.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helpfulgardener.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

helpfulgardener.com

143 ms

www.helpfulgardener.com

190 ms

styles.css

90 ms

show_ads.js

11 ms

headerborder.gif

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Helpfulgardener.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) relates to the external source Sb.scorecardresearch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.0 kB (35%)

Content Size

347.6 kB

After Optimization

225.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helpfulgardener.com main page is 347.6 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 170.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 25.4 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 4.7 kB, which is 16% 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 22.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 170.1 kB
  • After minification 165.4 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. Helpful Gardener images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 143.0 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 91.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 735 B

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. Helpfulgardener.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (66%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helpful Gardener. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

helpfulgardener.com

helpfulgardener.com

143 ms

www.helpfulgardener.com

www.helpfulgardener.com

190 ms

styles.css

styles.css

90 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

11 ms

headerborder.gif

headerborder.gif

115 ms

eight.jpg

eight.jpg

282 ms

redbar.gif

redbar.gif

115 ms

server1.opentracker.net

server1.opentracker.net

23 ms

ca-pub-5070231769909047.js

ca-pub-5070231769909047.js

49 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

50 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

65 ms

collect.jsp

collect.jsp

217 ms

log.opentracker.net

log.opentracker.net

213 ms

overall-bg.gif

overall-bg.gif

57 ms

top-header-bg.jpg

top-header-bg.jpg

168 ms

l-gradient.gif

l-gradient.gif

169 ms

r-gradient.gif

r-gradient.gif

169 ms

gardening-green.gif

gardening-green.gif

170 ms

contentbg.gif

contentbg.gif

170 ms

ads

ads

192 ms

osd.js

osd.js

5 ms

90 ms

adj

adj

62 ms

beacon

beacon

38 ms

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111 ms

pixel

pixel

41 ms

lidar.js

lidar.js

20 ms

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sbhK2lTE.js

26 ms

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LPRF00532997.jpg

155 ms

adServer.bs

adServer.bs

100 ms

verify_selector.js

verify_selector.js

159 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

162 ms

bapi

bapi

133 ms

cTrvNaRi.html

cTrvNaRi.html

15 ms

pixel

pixel

81 ms

pixel

pixel

88 ms

E4WYPs_lNJIuXrWpTsOcc3FIG36RfI0ERc0srw5QW9Y.js

E4WYPs_lNJIuXrWpTsOcc3FIG36RfI0ERc0srw5QW9Y.js

25 ms

sd

sd

5 ms

verifyr.js

verifyr.js

32 ms

client-verify.adtricity.com

client-verify.adtricity.com

391 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

777 ms

dbapi

dbapi

23 ms

0

0

17 ms

bg.png

bg.png

55 ms

adchoices.en.png

adchoices.en.png

87 ms

dt

dt

81 ms

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dt

88 ms

SEO Factors

helpfulgardener.com SEO score

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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 Helpfulgardener.com 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 Helpfulgardener.com 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

helpfulgardener.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Helpful Gardener. 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: