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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thegardencentergroup.com

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegardencentergroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegardencentergroup.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegardencentergroup.com

31 ms

www.thegardencentergroup.com

46 ms

www.thegardencentergroup.com

635 ms

style-cf.css

119 ms

css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Thegardencentergroup.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.icomoon.io and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (635 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegardencentergroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegardencentergroup.com main page is 8.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 61.3 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 61.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 473 B

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Thegardencentergroup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 97.8 kB

  • Original 329.2 kB
  • After minification 327.2 kB
  • After compression 231.4 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 97.8 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. Thegardencentergroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.8 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (64%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thegardencentergroup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegardencentergroup.com

thegardencentergroup.com

31 ms

www.thegardencentergroup.com

www.thegardencentergroup.com

46 ms

www.thegardencentergroup.com

www.thegardencentergroup.com

635 ms

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style-cf.css

119 ms

css

css

31 ms

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new-jevents.css

28 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

106 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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90 ms

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jquery-ui-custom-elvn-fr.min.js

57 ms

jQueryUIDialogInclude.js

jQueryUIDialogInclude.js

37 ms

jquery.dataTables.js

jquery.dataTables.js

57 ms

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96 ms

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json2.js

152 ms

underscore.js

underscore.js

164 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

97 ms

jqueryui.css

jqueryui.css

179 ms

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266 ms

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151 ms

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210 ms

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156 ms

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245 ms

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283 ms

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modal.js

257 ms

general.css

general.css

213 ms

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243 ms

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mc01.css

342 ms

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mc02.css

283 ms

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editor.css

448 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

446 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

380 ms

mc-respond-orig-v1.7.js

mc-respond-orig-v1.7.js

414 ms

ui.base.css

ui.base.css

201 ms

ui.theme.css

ui.theme.css

216 ms

ui.core.css

ui.core.css

84 ms

ui.resizable.css

ui.resizable.css

39 ms

ui.accordion.css

ui.accordion.css

46 ms

ui.dialog.css

ui.dialog.css

82 ms

ui.slider.css

ui.slider.css

150 ms

ui.tabs.css

ui.tabs.css

178 ms

ui.datepicker.css

ui.datepicker.css

108 ms

ui.progressbar.css

ui.progressbar.css

142 ms

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gcglogo643x150.png

185 ms

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65 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

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270 ms

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170 ms

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208 ms

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189 ms

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157 ms

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362 ms

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239 ms

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305 ms

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282 ms

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analytics.js

80 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

68 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

122 ms

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126 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

261 ms

ga.js

ga.js

50 ms

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icomoon.ttf

41 ms

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55 ms

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__utm.gif

16 ms

www.thegardencentergroup.com

www.thegardencentergroup.com

547 ms

Accessibility Review

thegardencentergroup.com accessibility score

89

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

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

thegardencentergroup.com best practices score

67

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

thegardencentergroup.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegardencentergroup.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 Thegardencentergroup.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

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