Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

herbexpert.co.uk

Home - Herb Expert

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

217 ms

herbexpert.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Tips on herb gardening, how to cook with herbs and some great recipes for you to try.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herbexpert.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herbexpert.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herbexpert.co.uk

183 ms

www.herbexpert.co.uk

293 ms

hint-textbox.js

189 ms

herbexpert.css

194 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Herbexpert.co.uk, 11% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (758 ms) belongs to the original domain Herbexpert.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

259.0 kB

After Optimization

207.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Herbexpert.co.uk main page is 259.0 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 148.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 28.0 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 28.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 464 B

  • Original 148.0 kB
  • After minification 147.6 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. Herb Expert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Herbexpert.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herb Expert. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

herbexpert.co.uk accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

herbexpert.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

herbexpert.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Herbexpert.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 Herbexpert.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Herb Expert. 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: