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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

hort.net

hort.net -- trade plants, info, and seeds while making gardening friends online!

Page Load Speed

358 ms in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

267 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Visit hort.net now to see the best up-to-date Hort content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hort.net

A regularly updated collection of full-color photographs, mailing lists, plant profiles, and links covering perennials, annuals, woody plants, and all types of plant material and related topics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hort.net page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 267 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hort.net performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hort.net

91 ms

www.hort.net

137 ms

hort.css

3 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

31 ms

hortnet-logo-C.jpg

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Hort.net, 4% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (137 ms) belongs to the original domain Hort.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

95.4 kB

After Optimization

78.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hort.net main page is 95.4 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 66.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 3.1 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 15.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 66.8 kB
  • After minification 65.4 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. Hort images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 83 B

  • Original 8.8 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Hort.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hort. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

hort.net

hort.net

91 ms

www.hort.net

www.hort.net

137 ms

hort.css

hort.css

3 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

31 ms

hortnet-logo-C.jpg

hortnet-logo-C.jpg

4 ms

seasonal.jpg

seasonal.jpg

7 ms

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9 ms

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10 ms

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10 ms

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12 ms

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mallorn-sprout-22x22-red.gif

12 ms

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12 ms

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12 ms

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13 ms

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14 ms

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15 ms

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17 ms

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14 ms

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17 ms

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16 ms

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20 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

hort.net accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

Best Practices

hort.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hort.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hort.net 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 Hort.net 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

hort.net

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