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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

homehydro.co.uk

Home Hydro Hydroponics - Rugby, Warwickshire Home Hydro Hydroponics

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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About Website

Welcome to homehydro.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Home Hydro best content right away, or after learning these important things about homehydro.co.uk

Home Hydro is Europe’s leading online horticulture and hydroponics retailer – we specialise in hydroponics systems, hydroponic grow tents and hydroponics grow lights.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homehydro.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 540 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

homehydro.co.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.homehydro.co.uk

540 ms

styles.css

177 ms

widgets.css

173 ms

fbintegrator.css

174 ms

sagePaySuite.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Homehydro.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Homehydro.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 561.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homehydro.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 69.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 92.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 990.8 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 Hydro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 318.2 kB

  • Original 407.0 kB
  • After minification 294.7 kB
  • After compression 88.8 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 318.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 81.7 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 76.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Homehydro.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (53%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Hydro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homehydro.co.uk

www.homehydro.co.uk

540 ms

styles.css

styles.css

177 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

173 ms

fbintegrator.css

fbintegrator.css

174 ms

sagePaySuite.css

sagePaySuite.css

183 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

349 ms

ccard.js

ccard.js

182 ms

validation.js

validation.js

261 ms

builder.js

builder.js

260 ms

effects.js

effects.js

269 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

278 ms

controls.js

controls.js

276 ms

slider.js

slider.js

346 ms

js.js

js.js

370 ms

form.js

form.js

371 ms

menu.js

menu.js

371 ms

translate.js

translate.js

372 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

431 ms

style.css

style.css

438 ms

default.js

default.js

438 ms

bkg_body.jpg

bkg_body.jpg

376 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

98 ms

minigrow_slider.jpg

minigrow_slider.jpg

380 ms

coolit_slider.jpg

coolit_slider.jpg

305 ms

Nodor_main.jpg

Nodor_main.jpg

422 ms

pest_slider.jpg

pest_slider.jpg

534 ms

Compacta600w_offer_main.jpg

Compacta600w_offer_main.jpg

539 ms

click_here.jpg

click_here.jpg

404 ms

sqad_maxistch.jpg

sqad_maxistch.jpg

551 ms

aeros.jpg

aeros.jpg

493 ms

sqad_dutchpro.jpg

sqad_dutchpro.jpg

578 ms

secret.jpg

secret.jpg

531 ms

sqad_litewave.jpg

sqad_litewave.jpg

670 ms

footer_callout.png

footer_callout.png

627 ms

mini_fb.jpg

mini_fb.jpg

628 ms

mini_twitter.jpg

mini_twitter.jpg

629 ms

mini_youtube.jpg

mini_youtube.jpg

637 ms

mini_pinterest.jpg

mini_pinterest.jpg

668 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

bkg_top-promo.gif

bkg_top-promo.gif

721 ms

bkg_nav_top.gif

bkg_nav_top.gif

692 ms

bkg_nav_parent.gif

bkg_nav_parent.gif

693 ms

bkg_pipe1.gif

bkg_pipe1.gif

694 ms

bkg_btn-small.png

bkg_btn-small.png

725 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

all.js

all.js

159 ms

arrow_left.png

arrow_left.png

691 ms

item_current.png

item_current.png

745 ms

item.png

item.png

744 ms

arrow_right.png

arrow_right.png

745 ms

HHwelcome.jpg

HHwelcome.jpg

747 ms

34 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

155 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

267 ms

print.css

print.css

90 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

84 ms

Accessibility Review

homehydro.co.uk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

homehydro.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

homehydro.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Homehydro.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 Homehydro.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

homehydro.co.uk

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