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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

polhill.co.uk

Kent's Leading Garden Centre | Polhill Garden CentrePolhill Garden Centre | Kent's Leading Garden Centre

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

793 ms

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About Website

Visit polhill.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Polhill content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about polhill.co.uk

Polhill Garden Centre - Award Winning Family Owned Business ✔ Over 50 Years Of Experience ✔ We Stock 1000's Of Products ✔ Shop Online & In Our Centre ➔

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polhill.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 3.7 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

polhill.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.767

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polhill.co.uk

157 ms

www.polhill.co.uk

463 ms

dashicons.min.css

223 ms

genericons.css

298 ms

font-awesome.min.css

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Polhill.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (972 ms) belongs to the original domain Polhill.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (16%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Polhill.co.uk main page is 7.8 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 289.1 kB
  • After minification 275.2 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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 246.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 806.0 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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, Polhill needs image optimization as it can save up to 806.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 224.5 kB

  • Original 360.8 kB
  • After minification 358.8 kB
  • After compression 136.3 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 224.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Polhill.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (72%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polhill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

polhill.co.uk

polhill.co.uk

157 ms

www.polhill.co.uk

www.polhill.co.uk

463 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

223 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

298 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

227 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

229 ms

public-main.css

public-main.css

232 ms

extendify-utilities.css

extendify-utilities.css

233 ms

settings.css

settings.css

298 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

302 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

378 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

313 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

392 ms

style.css

style.css

446 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

373 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

464 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

397 ms

custom.js

custom.js

463 ms

public-main.js

public-main.js

463 ms

tptools.js

tptools.js

538 ms

head.min.js

head.min.js

486 ms

css

css

38 ms

js

js

53 ms

queueclient.min.js

queueclient.min.js

23 ms

queueconfigloader.min.js

queueconfigloader.min.js

24 ms

line-awesome.min.css

line-awesome.min.css

520 ms

main.045c69e4.chunk.css

main.045c69e4.chunk.css

533 ms

kg_custom.css

kg_custom.css

532 ms

jquery.cookieBar.min.css

jquery.cookieBar.min.css

532 ms

jquery.cookieBar.js

jquery.cookieBar.js

542 ms

mmenu.css

mmenu.css

595 ms

mmenu.js

mmenu.js

618 ms

xajax.js

xajax.js

733 ms

kg_home.js

kg_home.js

616 ms

flexslider.min.css

flexslider.min.css

734 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

732 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

733 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

753 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

755 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

683 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

680 ms

etheme.min.js

etheme.min.js

681 ms

maxmegamenu.js

maxmegamenu.js

604 ms

public.js

public.js

602 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

600 ms

esg.min.js

esg.min.js

609 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

610 ms

2.17461bac.chunk.js

2.17461bac.chunk.js

791 ms

main.f46e75b4.chunk.js

main.f46e75b4.chunk.js

628 ms

runtime-main.1065a662.js

runtime-main.1065a662.js

626 ms

css2

css2

18 ms

lug5zv7kwr

lug5zv7kwr

96 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

37 ms

queueclientConfig.js

queueclientConfig.js

410 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

25 ms

PolhillHG-1.png

PolhillHG-1.png

400 ms

dummy.png

dummy.png

400 ms

roses-july-tile.jpg

roses-july-tile.jpg

624 ms

RocketGro-Seed-Compost.png

RocketGro-Seed-Compost.png

626 ms

Socials-11.jpg

Socials-11.jpg

906 ms

lifestyle-garden-panama-dark-8-seat-mixed-set.jpg

lifestyle-garden-panama-dark-8-seat-mixed-set.jpg

654 ms

bird-feeder-prefilled.jpg

bird-feeder-prefilled.jpg

972 ms

Newsletter-Squares-40.png

Newsletter-Squares-40.png

653 ms

Newsletter-Squares-42.png

Newsletter-Squares-42.png

903 ms

polhill-gozney-fire-takeover-blog.png

polhill-gozney-fire-takeover-blog.png

741 ms

15-gardening-tips-for-july-polhill-garden-centre.png

15-gardening-tips-for-july-polhill-garden-centre.png

812 ms

polhill-live-cooking-demo-independence-day-blog.png

polhill-live-cooking-demo-independence-day-blog.png

901 ms

Untitled-design-2-1.webp

Untitled-design-2-1.webp

895 ms

gca-logo-white-150x150-1.webp

gca-logo-white-150x150-1.webp

896 ms

2-year-guarantee-white-150x150-1.webp

2-year-guarantee-white-150x150-1.webp

898 ms

Welcome-Back.png

Welcome-Back.png

886 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

94 ms

font

font

33 ms

font

font

117 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

694 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

694 ms

la-regular-400.woff

la-regular-400.woff

277 ms

la-solid-900.woff

la-solid-900.woff

278 ms

Defaults.woff

Defaults.woff

574 ms

1721022579271

1721022579271

465 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

153 ms

311 ms

minibasket.html

minibasket.html

271 ms

font

font

9 ms

c.gif

c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

polhill.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

polhill.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

polhill.co.uk SEO score

94

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Polhill.co.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 Polhill.co.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

polhill.co.uk

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