Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

plant-biology.com

Plant Biology Advice - Information on botany, plants, and plant molecular biology

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

635 ms

Page Rendered

218 ms

plant-biology.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Plant Biology content for Philippines. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about plant-biology.com

Welcome to Plant Biology Advice (PBA). The place to come for information on all things plant! The site carries college level articles on plant biology, plant diagrams, and lab techniques.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plant-biology.com page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 853 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

plant-biology.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plant-biology.com

157 ms

www.plant-biology.com

224 ms

cloudflare.min.js

7 ms

gardenflowers.css

5 ms

rocket.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Plant-biology.com, 11% (1 request) were made to Ajax.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) belongs to the original domain Plant-biology.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

282.8 kB

After Optimization

159.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Plant-biology.com main page is 282.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 146.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. 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 6.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 123.9 kB
  • After minification 108.1 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. Obviously, Plant Biology needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 146.5 kB
  • After minification 146.5 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 99.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 625 B

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. Plant-biology.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Biology. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

plant-biology.com accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

plant-biology.com best practices score

58

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

plant-biology.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Plant-biology.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 Plant-biology.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Plant Biology. 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: