Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

investor.scotts.com

Investor Relations | The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

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About Website

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The Investor Relations website contains information about The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Investor.scotts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investor.scotts.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value39.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

investor.scotts.com

54 ms

investor.scotts.com

140 ms

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313 ms

css_KGDQiLPiKHVNcwSUX_fWNWyczVWKZsI93fJIzW0ypqs.css

140 ms

css_6IgeDRC-rHxFaTZEZExiWrrxwHMTjJ59dAnGwE53nDo.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Investor.scotts.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (483 ms) belongs to the original domain Investor.scotts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

643.7 kB

After Optimization

464.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Investor.scotts.com main page is 643.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 374.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.9 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 134.4 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. Investor Scotts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 139.7 kB

  • Original 374.8 kB
  • After minification 374.8 kB
  • After compression 235.1 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 139.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 528 B

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 87.7 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. Investor.scotts.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Investor Scotts. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

investor.scotts.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

investor.scotts.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

investor.scotts.com SEO score

86

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

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 Investor.scotts.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 Investor.scotts.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

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