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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

mulchdirect.com

Rubber Mulch | Playground Rubber Mulch | Landscape Rubber Mulch

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Mulch Direct content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mulchdirect.com

Mulch Direct is a leading retailer of rubber mulch products for playgrounds and landscaping. Our rubber mulch is rated 5 stars by our customers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mulchdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mulchdirect.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mulchdirect.com

85 ms

www.mulchdirect.com

400 ms

standalone.2b246cad0740442e67f4bcfc945ad1fc1715286365.css

157 ms

scripts-1e67a3417147c3242adea2f2fe2b5ccd1715286365.js

192 ms

conversion.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Mulchdirect.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Googleadservices.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (400 ms) belongs to the original domain Mulchdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 554.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

927.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mulchdirect.com main page is 1.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 882.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 5.9 kB, which is 25% 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 18.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 882.5 kB
  • After minification 725.2 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, Mulch Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 157.3 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 370.8 kB

  • Original 505.6 kB
  • After minification 410.7 kB
  • After compression 134.8 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 370.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 69.9 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. Mulchdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mulch Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mulchdirect.com

mulchdirect.com

85 ms

www.mulchdirect.com

www.mulchdirect.com

400 ms

standalone.2b246cad0740442e67f4bcfc945ad1fc1715286365.css

standalone.2b246cad0740442e67f4bcfc945ad1fc1715286365.css

157 ms

scripts-1e67a3417147c3242adea2f2fe2b5ccd1715286365.js

scripts-1e67a3417147c3242adea2f2fe2b5ccd1715286365.js

192 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

38 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

144 ms

ajax_loader.gif

ajax_loader.gif

132 ms

mulch_direct_logo_default2.gif

mulch_direct_logo_default2.gif

164 ms

home-rubber-mulch.png

home-rubber-mulch.png

348 ms

shop-landscape-mulch-menu.jpg

shop-landscape-mulch-menu.jpg

208 ms

shop-playground-mulch-menu.jpg

shop-playground-mulch-menu.jpg

206 ms

shop-mulch-borders-menu.jpg

shop-mulch-borders-menu.jpg

207 ms

grass-or-safety-surface.jpg

grass-or-safety-surface.jpg

206 ms

opensans-condbold-webfont.ttf

opensans-condbold-webfont.ttf

290 ms

ef-glyphs.woff

ef-glyphs.woff

246 ms

glyphs.woff

glyphs.woff

225 ms

86 ms

a699dd470b8253b6754156a930445846.js

a699dd470b8253b6754156a930445846.js

60 ms

opensans-regular-webfont.ttf

opensans-regular-webfont.ttf

240 ms

34 ms

Accessibility Review

mulchdirect.com accessibility score

77

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mulchdirect.com best practices score

67

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

mulchdirect.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Mulchdirect.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 Mulchdirect.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

mulchdirect.com

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