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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

perennials.com

Welcome to Heritage Perennials – The internet's largest perennial plant database

Page Load Speed

858 ms in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

630 ms

Page Rendered

116 ms

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About Website

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

A perennial plant database of over 4000 perennials, photos, detailed perennial plant profiles, gardening tips and information, resources, videos and more featuring Heritage Perennials.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Perennials.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 746 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

perennials.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

perennials.com

112 ms

www.perennials.com

176 ms

gppstub.js

118 ms

boise.js

14 ms

abilene.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Perennials.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to The.gatekeeperconsent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) belongs to the original domain Perennials.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.6 kB (28%)

Content Size

230.9 kB

After Optimization

167.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Perennials.com main page is 230.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 114.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 36.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 62.3 kB
  • After minification 43.7 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, Perennials needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.6 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 106.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 897 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Perennials.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 897 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (67%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Perennials. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

perennials.com

perennials.com

112 ms

www.perennials.com

www.perennials.com

176 ms

gppstub.js

gppstub.js

118 ms

boise.js

boise.js

14 ms

abilene.js

abilene.js

26 ms

et.js

et.js

23 ms

main_bs.css

main_bs.css

21 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

39 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

51 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

28 ms

main.js

main.js

28 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

70 ms

jquery.autocomplete.js

jquery.autocomplete.js

26 ms

jquery.autocomplete.css

jquery.autocomplete.css

46 ms

jquery.simplemodal.js

jquery.simplemodal.js

43 ms

simplemodal.css

simplemodal.css

30 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

46 ms

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116 ms

v.js

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44 ms

mulvane.js

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22 ms

wichita.js

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23 ms

raleigh.js

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24 ms

vista.js

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45 ms

olathe.js

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66 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

67 ms

ga.js

ga.js

44 ms

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71 ms

vitals.js

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36 ms

drake.js

drake.js

36 ms

chanute.js

chanute.js

35 ms

jellyfish.js

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53 ms

home.gif

home.gif

28 ms

dash_white.gif

dash_white.gif

28 ms

dash_brown.gif

dash_brown.gif

29 ms

button_fb.gif

button_fb.gif

30 ms

button_twitter.gif

button_twitter.gif

30 ms

text.png

text.png

34 ms

search_mag.gif

search_mag.gif

34 ms

search_adv.gif

search_adv.gif

34 ms

index_randomimage_show.html

index_randomimage_show.html

219 ms

indextab2.png

indextab2.png

99 ms

header_wp.png

header_wp.png

102 ms

showpic_source.html

showpic_source.html

187 ms

showpic_source.html

showpic_source.html

186 ms

showpic_source.html

showpic_source.html

156 ms

showpic_source.html

showpic_source.html

234 ms

header_top10.png

header_top10.png

116 ms

frontimage2.jpg

frontimage2.jpg

198 ms

header_101.png

header_101.png

227 ms

frontimage1.jpg

frontimage1.jpg

196 ms

heritage.gif

heritage.gif

196 ms

x.png

x.png

208 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

Accessibility Review

perennials.com accessibility score

57

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.

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

Best Practices

perennials.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

perennials.com SEO score

88

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

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 Perennials.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 Perennials.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

perennials.com

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