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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

homeandgarden.com

Official Minneapolis Home + Garden Show | March 5-9, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Home And Garden content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homeandgarden.com

One of the largest home and garden shows in the US, this show features landscaping companies, remodeling contractors, interior design companies, and more, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeandgarden.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeandgarden.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeandgarden.com

45 ms

www.homeandgardenshow.com

57 ms

www.homeandgardenshow.com

157 ms

global-1.2.22.min.css

22 ms

platform.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Homeandgarden.com, 21% (9 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 17% (7 requests) were made to Homeandgardenshow.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (414 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.marketplaceevents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

892.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeandgarden.com main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 623.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 90.2 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 98.8 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 90.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 623.6 kB
  • After minification 619.7 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. Home And Garden images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 63.3 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 22.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 262.2 kB
  • After minification 245.6 kB
  • After compression 191.2 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. Homeandgarden.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home And Garden. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homeandgarden.com

homeandgarden.com

45 ms

www.homeandgardenshow.com

www.homeandgardenshow.com

57 ms

www.homeandgardenshow.com

www.homeandgardenshow.com

157 ms

global-1.2.22.min.css

global-1.2.22.min.css

22 ms

platform.js

platform.js

67 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

89 ms

bqr_banner2-web-50.jpg

bqr_banner2-web-50.jpg

374 ms

buyers_guide.jpg

buyers_guide.jpg

371 ms

app.js

app.js

120 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

80 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

113 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

118 ms

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

113 ms

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-migrate.js

197 ms

js.cookie.js

js.cookie.js

46 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

197 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

117 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

220 ms

mpe-1.2.8.min.js

mpe-1.2.8.min.js

116 ms

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socialmedia-springgreen2019.png

412 ms

platform.js

platform.js

111 ms

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minnyhg_rusco.jpg

366 ms

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245 ms

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291 ms

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246 ms

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245 ms

laptop.jpg

laptop.jpg

414 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

84 ms

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garden-cart746e560ea9a06e0abe1eff0000415d3a.jpg

194 ms

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235 ms

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178 ms

backyard-garden.jpg

backyard-garden.jpg

268 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

41 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

101 ms

slick.css

slick.css

13 ms

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79 ms

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87 ms

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5 ms

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4 ms

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3 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

homeandgarden.com accessibility score

66

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

homeandgarden.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homeandgarden.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Homeandgarden.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 Homeandgarden.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

homeandgarden.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Home And Garden. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: