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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 63% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    69% of websites

sandhillnursery.ca

Sandhill Nursery Home & Garden Centre

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sandhill Nursery content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sandhillnursery.ca

Welcome to Sandhill Nursery Home & Garden Centre, your one-stop destination for all your gardening and home decor needs. Our wide range of products, including plants, trees, shrubs, and garden accesso...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sandhillnursery.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.9 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

sandhillnursery.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sandhillnursery.ca

169 ms

powr.js

85 ms

css

89 ms

css

104 ms

gui-2-0.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Sandhillnursery.ca, 80% (39 requests) were made to Cdn.shoplightspeed.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (705 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shoplightspeed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sandhillnursery.ca main page is 5.1 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. 85% 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 15.6 kB, which is 17% 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 77.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 40.7 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Sandhill Nursery images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 126.5 kB
  • After compression 120.2 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Sandhillnursery.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sandhill Nursery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sandhillnursery.ca

www.sandhillnursery.ca

169 ms

powr.js

powr.js

85 ms

css

css

89 ms

css

css

104 ms

gui-2-0.css

gui-2-0.css

90 ms

gui-responsive-2-0.css

gui-responsive-2-0.css

100 ms

style.css

style.css

210 ms

settings.css

settings.css

247 ms

custom.css

custom.css

173 ms

jquery-1-9-1.js

jquery-1-9-1.js

112 ms

jquery-ui-1-10-1.js

jquery-ui-1-10-1.js

102 ms

js

js

93 ms

scripts-min.js

scripts-min.js

195 ms

gui.js

gui.js

110 ms

gui-responsive-2-0.js

gui-responsive-2-0.js

117 ms

style-fallback.css

style-fallback.css

150 ms

logo.png

logo.png

202 ms

icon-payment-paypal.png

icon-payment-paypal.png

148 ms

icon-payment-creditcard.png

icon-payment-creditcard.png

143 ms

icon-payment-mastercard.png

icon-payment-mastercard.png

144 ms

icon-payment-visa.png

icon-payment-visa.png

142 ms

icon-payment-americanexpress.png

icon-payment-americanexpress.png

145 ms

hero-banner-1-image.jpg

hero-banner-1-image.jpg

214 ms

hero-banner-2-image.jpg

hero-banner-2-image.jpg

219 ms

hero-banner-3-image.jpg

hero-banner-3-image.jpg

216 ms

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fallfestival-posterlineupfallfestival2022-11x17-10.jpg

214 ms

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fallfestival-posterlineupfallfestival2022-11x17-pe.jpg

212 ms

acceptingdonationsartboard-1.png

acceptingdonationsartboard-1.png

295 ms

emailheader-fallworkshops.jpg

emailheader-fallworkshops.jpg

655 ms

registernowclickhere.jpg

registernowclickhere.jpg

296 ms

sanhillontarioartboard-1-copy.png

sanhillontarioartboard-1-copy.png

293 ms

sandhillnursery-gardencentre-800px.jpg

sandhillnursery-gardencentre-800px.jpg

304 ms

milo-berries-red-bundle.jpg

milo-berries-red-bundle.jpg

303 ms

fall-porch-pkg-fall-favourite-white.jpg

fall-porch-pkg-fall-favourite-white.jpg

657 ms

fall-porch-pkg-fall-favourite-yellow.jpg

fall-porch-pkg-fall-favourite-yellow.jpg

657 ms

milo-berries-white-wash-bundle.jpg

milo-berries-white-wash-bundle.jpg

658 ms

milo-berries-natural-bundle.jpg

milo-berries-natural-bundle.jpg

660 ms

ornamental-balls-silver-glossy-8-cm-3-stem.jpg

ornamental-balls-silver-glossy-8-cm-3-stem.jpg

664 ms

ornamental-balls-gold-glossy-8-cm-3-stem.jpg

ornamental-balls-gold-glossy-8-cm-3-stem.jpg

669 ms

allium-bulb-pkg-giganteum-18-2-pack.jpg

allium-bulb-pkg-giganteum-18-2-pack.jpg

667 ms

allium-bulb-pkg-ambassador-20-1-pkg.jpg

allium-bulb-pkg-ambassador-20-1-pkg.jpg

671 ms

narcissus-bulb-pkg-tete-a-tete-20-pack.jpg

narcissus-bulb-pkg-tete-a-tete-20-pack.jpg

669 ms

promo-1.jpg

promo-1.jpg

704 ms

promo-2.jpg

promo-2.jpg

705 ms

pageview.js

pageview.js

164 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

165 ms

invisible.js

invisible.js

68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

424 ms

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382 ms

Accessibility Review

sandhillnursery.ca accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

sandhillnursery.ca 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sandhillnursery.ca SEO score

90

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

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 Sandhillnursery.ca 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 Sandhillnursery.ca 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

sandhillnursery.ca

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