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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

pgg.org.uk

Meetings, training, horticultural advice - Professional Gardeners' Guild

Page Load Speed

19.7 sec in total

First Response

4.9 sec

Resources Loaded

14.6 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pgg.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 4.9 sec and then it took 14.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pgg.org.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.102

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pgg.org.uk

4859 ms

style.min.css

2221 ms

styles.css

2333 ms

settings.css

2429 ms

fontello.css

2347 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Pgg.org.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Pgg.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

759.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pgg.org.uk main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 631.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 61.7 kB
  • After minification 59.0 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 48.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 631.4 kB
  • After minification 613.1 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. Pgg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 177.3 kB

  • Original 257.8 kB
  • After minification 244.3 kB
  • After compression 80.5 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 177.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 293.5 kB

  • Original 345.8 kB
  • After minification 304.5 kB
  • After compression 52.4 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. Pgg.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (46%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pgg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.pgg.org.uk

www.pgg.org.uk

4859 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

2221 ms

styles.css

styles.css

2333 ms

settings.css

settings.css

2429 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

2347 ms

job-listings.css

job-listings.css

2386 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

2348 ms

css

css

30 ms

reset.css

reset.css

2394 ms

960.css

960.css

2437 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

2438 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

2522 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

2570 ms

style.css

style.css

2571 ms

custom_style.css

custom_style.css

2541 ms

style.css

style.css

2539 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

2718 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

2619 ms

js

js

61 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

2586 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

2587 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

2587 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

2587 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

3565 ms

index.js

index.js

3564 ms

index.js

index.js

3565 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

3648 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

3565 ms

cycle3_script.js

cycle3_script.js

3567 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

3733 ms

custom_params.js

custom_params.js

3657 ms

superfish.combined.js

superfish.combined.js

3682 ms

script.js

script.js

3732 ms

style.css

style.css

1202 ms

pgg_web_bg1.jpg

pgg_web_bg1.jpg

265 ms

pgg_headerbgandlogo.png

pgg_headerbgandlogo.png

203 ms

pgg_header_logo_2017.gif

pgg_header_logo_2017.gif

121 ms

facebook_32.png

facebook_32.png

178 ms

pgg-bg-whitebox.png

pgg-bg-whitebox.png

121 ms

pgg_slides940x430_summer_4.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_summer_4.jpg

161 ms

pgg_slides940x430_join_4b.png

pgg_slides940x430_join_4b.png

278 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

317 ms

pgg_slides940x430_video_7a.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_video_7a.jpg

673 ms

pgg_slides940x430_video_7b.png

pgg_slides940x430_video_7b.png

570 ms

repeat-x-sprite-sheet.png

repeat-x-sprite-sheet.png

570 ms

pgg_slides940x430_meetings_2a.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_meetings_2a.jpg

729 ms

pgg_slides940x430_meetings_2b.png

pgg_slides940x430_meetings_2b.png

622 ms

pgg_slides940x430_traineeship_1a.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_traineeship_1a.jpg

838 ms

pgg_slides940x430_traineeship_1b.png

pgg_slides940x430_traineeship_1b.png

763 ms

pgg_slides940x430_studytours_3a.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_studytours_3a.jpg

908 ms

pgg_slides940x430_studytours_3b.png

pgg_slides940x430_studytours_3b.png

779 ms

pgg_slides940x430_buy_5a.jpg

pgg_slides940x430_buy_5a.jpg

793 ms

pgg_slides940x430_buy_5b.png

pgg_slides940x430_buy_5b.png

819 ms

slider-controls.png

slider-controls.png

883 ms

pgg_hello.gif

pgg_hello.gif

1034 ms

pgg_280box_jobs_02.gif

pgg_280box_jobs_02.gif

1127 ms

pgg_280box_join_online_2015.gif

pgg_280box_join_online_2015.gif

1142 ms

pgg_280box_trainee.jpg

pgg_280box_trainee.jpg

1180 ms

PGG_ECG_280x105-v2.gif

PGG_ECG_280x105-v2.gif

1308 ms

pgg_280box-ad-rhs.gif

pgg_280box-ad-rhs.gif

1192 ms

pgg_280box_ad_pgtrust.jpg

pgg_280box_ad_pgtrust.jpg

1313 ms

spring-daffodils-280x110_c.jpg

spring-daffodils-280x110_c.jpg

1345 ms

Brantwood-featured-280x110_c.jpg

Brantwood-featured-280x110_c.jpg

1380 ms

j-humphris-feature-280x110_c.jpg

j-humphris-feature-280x110_c.jpg

1391 ms

danish-scurvy-grass-280x110_c.jpg

danish-scurvy-grass-280x110_c.jpg

1408 ms

salvias-hot-lips-javier-and-bumble-280x110_c.jpg

salvias-hot-lips-javier-and-bumble-280x110_c.jpg

1430 ms

pgg-bg-palegreybox-2.png

pgg-bg-palegreybox-2.png

1380 ms

pgg-bg-greenbox17-01.png

pgg-bg-greenbox17-01.png

1382 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

45 ms

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ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyosBO5Xk.ttf

46 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1513 ms

slider-bullet.png

slider-bullet.png

1439 ms

Accessibility Review

pgg.org.uk accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

pgg.org.uk best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pgg.org.uk SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pgg.org.uk 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 Pgg.org.uk 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

pgg.org.uk

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