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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rootsimple.com

Root Simple | low tech home tech

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit rootsimple.com now to see the best up-to-date Root Simple content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rootsimple.com

Root Simple is about back to basics, DIY living, encompassing homegrown vegetables, chickens, herbs, hooch, bicycles, cultural alchemy, and common sense.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rootsimple.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 2.5 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

rootsimple.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rootsimple.com

16 ms

www.rootsimple.com

343 ms

cloudflare.min.js

21 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

26 ms

style.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Rootsimple.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to O.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (416 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 646.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rootsimple.com main page is 2.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 46.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Root Simple images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 260.9 kB

  • Original 396.8 kB
  • After minification 396.3 kB
  • After compression 135.9 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 260.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 279.1 kB

  • Original 362.7 kB
  • After minification 358.8 kB
  • After compression 83.6 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. Rootsimple.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 279.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (55%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Root Simple. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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16 ms

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343 ms

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Accessibility Review

rootsimple.com 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

rootsimple.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rootsimple.com SEO score

98

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 Rootsimple.com 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 Rootsimple.com 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

rootsimple.com

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