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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

rhododendron.org

The American Rhododendron Society Welcomes You

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Rhododendron content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about rhododendron.org

The purpose of the Society is to encourage interest in and to disseminate knowledge about rhododendrons and azaleas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rhododendron.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rhododendron.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rhododendron.org

1140 ms

styles.css

57 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

16 ms

script.js

98 ms

js-image-slider.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Rhododendron.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Rhododendron.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

950.7 kB

After Optimization

912.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rhododendron.org main page is 950.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 900.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 12.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 900.0 kB
  • After minification 876.4 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. Rhododendron images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 903 B

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Rhododendron.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 903 B or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rhododendron. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rhododendron.org

rhododendron.org

1140 ms

styles.css

styles.css

57 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

16 ms

script.js

script.js

98 ms

js-image-slider.css

js-image-slider.css

130 ms

js-image-slider.js

js-image-slider.js

164 ms

navhome.js

navhome.js

1149 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

10 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

209 ms

LindaDerkach.jpg

LindaDerkach.jpg

253 ms

Image1a.jpg

Image1a.jpg

307 ms

Image2a.jpg

Image2a.jpg

354 ms

Image3a.jpg

Image3a.jpg

412 ms

Image4a.jpg

Image4a.jpg

466 ms

Image5a.jpg

Image5a.jpg

504 ms

Image6a.jpg

Image6a.jpg

568 ms

Image10a.jpg

Image10a.jpg

614 ms

Image7a.jpg

Image7a.jpg

658 ms

Image8a.jpg

Image8a.jpg

702 ms

Image9a.jpg

Image9a.jpg

739 ms

cover1.jpg

cover1.jpg

780 ms

Pinterest_logo.jpg

Pinterest_logo.jpg

820 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

855 ms

navbg.jpg

navbg.jpg

1070 ms

grnblk.jpg

grnblk.jpg

37 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

42 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

48 ms

Accessibility Review

rhododendron.org accessibility score

76

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

rhododendron.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rhododendron.org SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rhododendron.org 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 Rhododendron.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

rhododendron.org

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