Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

mainegardens.org

Maine's Botanical Garden | Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

mainegardens.org screenshot

About Website

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

Enjoy beautiful gardens, giant trolls, and miles of trails at New England's largest botanical garden, located on the coast of Maine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mainegardens.org page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Mainegardens.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

mainegardens.org performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,330 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.112

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mainegardens.org

130 ms

www.mainegardens.org

169 ms

xfa2nzs.js

139 ms

html5.js

31 ms

cff-style.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Mainegardens.org, 55% (44 requests) were made to 2pylq3anxf4hpx7a3e9ly3vs.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 16% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (989 ms) belongs to the original domain Mainegardens.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 744.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Mainegardens.org main page is 4.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 77.4 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 63.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 126.2 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Maine Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 393.2 kB

  • Original 587.4 kB
  • After minification 546.7 kB
  • After compression 194.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 393.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 161.4 kB

  • Original 192.0 kB
  • After minification 143.0 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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. Mainegardens.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (67%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maine 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 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mainegardens.org accessibility score

95

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mainegardens.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mainegardens.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mainegardens.org 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 Mainegardens.org 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 data is detected on the main page of Maine Gardens. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: