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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

homesteadgardens.com

Homestead Gardens - Garden Supplies, Nursery, and Landscaping

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

775 ms

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About Website

Welcome to homesteadgardens.com homepage info - get ready to check Homestead Gardens best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about homesteadgardens.com

Maryland and Delaware's leading garden center offering the best selection of houseplants, annuals, perennials, native trees, shrubs and more...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homesteadgardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homesteadgardens.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value120.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value48.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.443

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value99.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homesteadgardens.com

1547 ms

pixie.js

24 ms

gtm.js

85 ms

js

141 ms

wc-authorize-net-cim-checkout-block.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Homesteadgardens.com, 8% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Homesteadgardens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (7%)

Content Size

48.3 MB

After Optimization

45.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homesteadgardens.com main page is 48.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 47.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 360.0 kB

  • Original 398.1 kB
  • After minification 384.2 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 360.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.8 MB

  • Original 47.3 MB
  • After minification 44.4 MB

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. Homestead Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 409.1 kB
  • After minification 408.4 kB
  • After compression 369.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 236.3 kB
  • After minification 236.3 kB
  • After compression 210.0 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. Homesteadgardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (74%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homestead Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homesteadgardens.com

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Accessibility Review

homesteadgardens.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

homesteadgardens.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homesteadgardens.com SEO score

90

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

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 Homesteadgardens.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 Homesteadgardens.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

homesteadgardens.com

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