Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

hortweek.com

HortWeek | Latest horticulture industry news and jobs

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

hortweek.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hort Week content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hortweek.com

HortWeek has the latest news, jobs and technical advice for ornamental nurseries, edibles production, garden retailing, landscaping, parks, gardens, turf and arboriculture

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hortweek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hortweek.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hortweek.com

195 ms

www.hortweek.com

1213 ms

otSDKStub.js

38 ms

_Layout_Universal_LayoutMediaProvider_4A905916235FD24018E190B910EFCC74.css

31 ms

modernizr_F645DB2D08433AFE645D1319A4217EEF.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 255 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Hortweek.com, 79% (202 requests) were made to Cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk and 4% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 596.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hortweek.com main page is 4.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 377.6 kB

  • Original 422.4 kB
  • After minification 373.3 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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 49.1 kB, which is 12% 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 377.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Hort Week images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 126 B

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 119.5 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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. Hortweek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (8%)

Requests Now

237

After Optimization

218

The browser has sent 237 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hort Week. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hortweek.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hortweek.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hortweek.com SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Hortweek.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 Hortweek.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

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