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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

shop.hydrogarden.com

HydroGarden is the UK's leading manufacturer and distributor of hydroponic equipment and services

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

283 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

737 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Shop Hydro Garden content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shop.hydrogarden.com

HydroGarden is the UK's leading manufacturer and distributor of hydroponic equipment and services. We are a wholesaler and distribute the biggest names in hydroponics such as; LUMii, CANNA, VitaLi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.hydrogarden.com page load time and found that the first response time was 283 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shop.hydrogarden.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.607

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.hydrogarden.com

283 ms

www.hydrogarden.com

419 ms

260 ms

gtm.js

53 ms

store

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shop.hydrogarden.com, 97% (69 requests) were made to Hydrogarden.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Hydrogarden.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (13%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Shop.hydrogarden.com main page is 8.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 30.1 kB, which is 27% 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 99.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 937.1 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.1 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. Obviously, Shop Hydro Garden needs image optimization as it can save up to 937.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (9%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

58

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Hydro Garden. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shop.hydrogarden.com

shop.hydrogarden.com

283 ms

www.hydrogarden.com

www.hydrogarden.com

419 ms

260 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

53 ms

store

store

163 ms

theme.css

theme.css

244 ms

2057.gif

2057.gif

311 ms

3082.gif

3082.gif

312 ms

1036.gif

1036.gif

315 ms

Logo2.jpg

Logo2.jpg

319 ms

progress-indicator.gif

progress-indicator.gif

365 ms

libs

libs

740 ms

shop

shop

535 ms

Mountain_Air_1920x451.jpg

Mountain_Air_1920x451.jpg

1061 ms

ON_Raspberry_Web_Banner.png

ON_Raspberry_Web_Banner.png

991 ms

PRO7_Range_WebBanner.jpg

PRO7_Range_WebBanner.jpg

860 ms

XLED%20Web%20Banner.png

XLED%20Web%20Banner.png

1275 ms

ESSENTIALSLAB_pHMinus30_WebBanner.jpg

ESSENTIALSLAB_pHMinus30_WebBanner.jpg

989 ms

08-350-088_1.jpg

08-350-088_1.jpg

968 ms

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05-270-110_1.jpg

992 ms

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03-155-130_9.jpg

1047 ms

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03-155-410_1.jpg

1146 ms

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1147 ms

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1147 ms

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07-320-325_1.jpg

1200 ms

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08-355-930_1.jpg

1213 ms

BioBizz%20brand%20page%20logo.png

BioBizz%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1220 ms

Canna%20brand%20page%20logo.png

Canna%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1226 ms

GuardnAid%20brand%20page%20logo.png

GuardnAid%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1227 ms

LightHouse%20brand%20page%20logo.png

LightHouse%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1278 ms

LUMii%20brand%20page%20logo.png

LUMii%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1290 ms

MountainAir%20brand%20page%20logo.png

MountainAir%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1297 ms

new_Odour_Neutraliser_Logo.png

new_Odour_Neutraliser_Logo.png

1304 ms

PLANT%21T%20brand%20page%20logo.png

PLANT%21T%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1304 ms

PowerPlant_logo_2020.jpg

PowerPlant_logo_2020.jpg

1352 ms

RAM%20brand%20page%20logo.png

RAM%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1356 ms

ROOT%21T%20brand%20page%20logo.png

ROOT%21T%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1367 ms

Superthrive%20brand%20page%20logo.png

Superthrive%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1373 ms

vitalink.jpg

vitalink.jpg

1382 ms

PRO7%20brand%20page%20logo.png

PRO7%20brand%20page%20logo.png

1381 ms

arrow-down-grey.png

arrow-down-grey.png

1177 ms

login-red.png

login-red.png

1155 ms

OpenSans-Regular.woff

OpenSans-Regular.woff

1144 ms

OpenSans-Bold.woff

OpenSans-Bold.woff

1149 ms

PathwayGothicOne.woff

PathwayGothicOne.woff

1155 ms

OpenSans-Italic.woff

OpenSans-Italic.woff

1151 ms

FB_Grey.jpg

FB_Grey.jpg

1152 ms

Twitter_Grey.jpg

Twitter_Grey.jpg

977 ms

Instagram_Grey.jpg

Instagram_Grey.jpg

665 ms

LinkedIn_Grey.jpg

LinkedIn_Grey.jpg

625 ms

YouTube_Grey.jpg

YouTube_Grey.jpg

568 ms

search.png

search.png

549 ms

btn-bg-right-bottom.png

btn-bg-right-bottom.png

600 ms

btn-arrow-right.png

btn-arrow-right.png

598 ms

basket.png

basket.png

555 ms

navigator-hover-default.png

navigator-hover-default.png

546 ms

previous-button-updates.png

previous-button-updates.png

469 ms

next-button-updated.png

next-button-updated.png

468 ms

navigator-default.png

navigator-default.png

520 ms

SELLINGTOOLS.jpg

SELLINGTOOLS.jpg

96 ms

PROPAGATION.jpg

PROPAGATION.jpg

86 ms

KITS.jpg

KITS.jpg

86 ms

POTS.jpg

POTS.jpg

87 ms

IRRIGATION.jpg

IRRIGATION.jpg

84 ms

MEDIA.jpg

MEDIA.jpg

86 ms

NU-AD.jpg

NU-AD.jpg

169 ms

NU-CONTROL.jpg

NU-CONTROL.jpg

163 ms

ODOUR.jpg

ODOUR.jpg

172 ms

LIGHTING.jpg

LIGHTING.jpg

167 ms

AIR.jpg

AIR.jpg

172 ms

PEST.jpg

PEST.jpg

166 ms

Accessibility Review

shop.hydrogarden.com accessibility score

80

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

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

shop.hydrogarden.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shop.hydrogarden.com SEO score

83

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shop.hydrogarden.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Shop.hydrogarden.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

shop.hydrogarden.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shop Hydro Garden. 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: