Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

orchidspecies.com

Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

orchidspecies.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Orchid Species content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about orchidspecies.com

the world's largest single reference site on orchid species, how to grow, where they are found, what they are called, when they bloom

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Key Findings

We analyzed Orchidspecies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

orchidspecies.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.197

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

orchidspecies.com

1149 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

37 ms

btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif

29 ms

frontpage.jpg

47 ms

scent.jpg

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Orchidspecies.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Orchidspecies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

568.3 kB

After Optimization

521.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Orchidspecies.com main page is 568.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 288.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. 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 30.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 288.1 kB
  • After minification 272.5 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. Orchid Species images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 236.4 kB
  • After minification 236.4 kB
  • After compression 236.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (28%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Orchid Species. 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.

Accessibility Review

orchidspecies.com accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

orchidspecies.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

orchidspecies.com SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Orchidspecies.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 Orchidspecies.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Orchid Species. 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: