Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

plantsomethingmaine.org

Plant Something! Plant Maine! | Gardening, Landscaping & Horticulture | Plant Something Maine is putting down roots in our neighborhoods, homes, busin...

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plantsomethingmaine.org page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 4.1 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

plantsomethingmaine.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plantsomethingmaine.org

142 ms

plantsomethingmaine.org

786 ms

js

83 ms

style.min.css

75 ms

embed-public.min.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Plantsomethingmaine.org, 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Melna.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 954.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Plantsomethingmaine.org main page is 4.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 187.8 kB

  • Original 226.2 kB
  • After minification 221.4 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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 187.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 718.7 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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 Something Maine needs image optimization as it can save up to 718.7 kB or 21% 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 32.9 kB

  • Original 472.4 kB
  • After minification 472.4 kB
  • After compression 439.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 202.1 kB
  • After minification 202.1 kB
  • After compression 187.5 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. Plantsomethingmaine.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (66%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Something Maine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

plantsomethingmaine.org accessibility score

84

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

plantsomethingmaine.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

plantsomethingmaine.org SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Plantsomethingmaine.org 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 Plantsomethingmaine.org 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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Plant Something Maine. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: