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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

spudsmart.com

Spud Smart - dedicated to the potato industry from coast to coast

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

581 ms

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About Website

Visit spudsmart.com now to see the best up-to-date Spud Smart content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about spudsmart.com

Timely information on all aspects of the potato industry from seed to processing to markets. As the voice of potato growers, processors, industry suppliers and policymakers nationally, Spud Smart focu...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spudsmart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 2.4 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

spudsmart.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spudsmart.com

46 ms

spudsmart.com

119 ms

styles.css

31 ms

notice.css

35 ms

tweetsharestyle.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Spudsmart.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) belongs to the original domain Spudsmart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

681.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spudsmart.com main page is 1.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 410.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 344.8 kB

  • Original 410.6 kB
  • After minification 410.5 kB
  • After compression 65.8 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 344.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 231.9 kB
  • After minification 229.6 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. Spud Smart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 254.7 kB
  • After minification 254.7 kB
  • After compression 253.7 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 148.2 kB
  • After minification 132.9 kB
  • After compression 132.8 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. Spudsmart.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (69%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spud Smart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

spudsmart.com

spudsmart.com

46 ms

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spudsmart.com

119 ms

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31 ms

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35 ms

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26 ms

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28 ms

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32 ms

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32 ms

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37 ms

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43 ms

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48 ms

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46 ms

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133 ms

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47 ms

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51 ms

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55 ms

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59 ms

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65 ms

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86 ms

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74 ms

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76 ms

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79 ms

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80 ms

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84 ms

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121 ms

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120 ms

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119 ms

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122 ms

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121 ms

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123 ms

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124 ms

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122 ms

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124 ms

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125 ms

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124 ms

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126 ms

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45 ms

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119 ms

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107 ms

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27 ms

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351 ms

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351 ms

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467 ms

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462 ms

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456 ms

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453 ms

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458 ms

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451 ms

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447 ms

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438 ms

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428 ms

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134 ms

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26 ms

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76 ms

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78 ms

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75 ms

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81 ms

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Accessibility Review

spudsmart.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

spudsmart.com 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

spudsmart.com SEO score

89

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 Spudsmart.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 Spudsmart.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

spudsmart.com

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