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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

microfarmgardens.com

Edible Gardening & Small-scale Sustainable Farming - Microfarm Organic Gardens

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microfarmgardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 4.5 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

microfarmgardens.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

microfarmgardens.com

68 ms

common.css

51 ms

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.css

3032 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

36 ms

connection_core-min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Microfarmgardens.com, 28% (19 requests) were made to Static1.1.sqspcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Microfarmgardens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

535.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Microfarmgardens.com main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 436.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 125.2 kB
  • After minification 118.9 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 102.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 436.3 kB
  • After minification 368.4 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. Obviously, Microfarm Gardens needs image optimization as it can save up to 67.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 246.8 kB

  • Original 382.4 kB
  • After minification 345.1 kB
  • After compression 135.6 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 246.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 60.4 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Microfarmgardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (59%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Microfarm 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

microfarmgardens.com

microfarmgardens.com

68 ms

common.css

common.css

51 ms

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.css

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.css

3032 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

36 ms

connection_core-min.js

connection_core-min.js

25 ms

json-min.js

json-min.js

26 ms

animation-min.js

animation-min.js

24 ms

selector.js

selector.js

34 ms

element.js

element.js

45 ms

global.js

global.js

99 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

45 ms

api.js

api.js

46 ms

base64.js

base64.js

55 ms

census.js

census.js

57 ms

yahoo-min.js

yahoo-min.js

57 ms

event-min.js

event-min.js

59 ms

event-mouseenter-min.js

event-mouseenter-min.js

81 ms

element-min.js

element-min.js

66 ms

social.js

social.js

1086 ms

datefmt.js

datefmt.js

68 ms

yui2-yui3-bridge.js

yui2-yui3-bridge.js

76 ms

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.js

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.js

79 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

anythingslider.css

anythingslider.css

352 ms

theme-microfarmgardens.css

theme-microfarmgardens.css

285 ms

jQuery.thumbFx.css

jQuery.thumbFx.css

249 ms

jquery.anythingslider.js

jquery.anythingslider.js

268 ms

jQuery.thumbFx.js

jQuery.thumbFx.js

405 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

11 ms

cookie-min.js

cookie-min.js

278 ms

eu-cookie-policy.js

eu-cookie-policy.js

289 ms

re_.js

re_.js

75 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

31 ms

ga.js

ga.js

17 ms

player-rw.png

player-rw.png

44 ms

play-button.png

play-button.png

63 ms

player-fw.png

player-fw.png

46 ms

index.html

index.html

195 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

ig-badge-32.png

ig-badge-32.png

74 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

29 ms

flickr.png

flickr.png

28 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

41 ms

newgardeners.png

newgardeners.png

33 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

33 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

26 ms

RecordHit

RecordHit

52 ms

rest

rest

65 ms

colors_right_top.png

colors_right_top.png

18 ms

microfarmgardens.png

microfarmgardens.png

19 ms

cloudsandbirds.png

cloudsandbirds.png

21 ms

colors_right.png

colors_right.png

25 ms

8039.js

8039.js

24 ms

background_buildings.png

background_buildings.png

19 ms

icon_organicgardendesign.png

icon_organicgardendesign.png

18 ms

icon_compostsystems.png

icon_compostsystems.png

18 ms

icon_greenhouses.png

icon_greenhouses.png

9 ms

icon_chickencoops.png

icon_chickencoops.png

4 ms

icon_rainwaterharvesting.png

icon_rainwaterharvesting.png

4 ms

microfarmgardens_footer.png

microfarmgardens_footer.png

4 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

4 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

3 ms

restaurantsandbusinesses.png

restaurantsandbusinesses.png

3 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

13 ms

overlay-arrow-left.png

overlay-arrow-left.png

12 ms

overlay-arrow-right.png

overlay-arrow-right.png

15 ms

secure.modernactive.com

secure.modernactive.com

99 ms

Accessibility Review

microfarmgardens.com accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

microfarmgardens.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

microfarmgardens.com SEO score

69

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

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 Microfarmgardens.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 Microfarmgardens.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

microfarmgardens.com

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