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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thegardener.co.za

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Page Load Speed

60.9 sec in total

First Response

11.3 sec

Resources Loaded

49.1 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegardener.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 11.3 sec and then it took 49.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegardener.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,880 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.644

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegardener.co.za

11279 ms

mootools-core.js

2612 ms

mootools-more.js

8470 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

3172 ms

k2.css

880 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Thegardener.co.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegardener.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.9 kB (67%)

Content Size

608.2 kB

After Optimization

201.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegardener.co.za main page is 608.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 373.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 70.9 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. 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 65.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 51.1 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. Obviously, The Gardener needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.9 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 242.9 kB

  • Original 373.0 kB
  • After minification 355.8 kB
  • After compression 130.1 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 242.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 83.3 kB

  • Original 95.5 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Thegardener.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (22%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

73

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gardener. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegardener.co.za

thegardener.co.za

11279 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

2612 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

8470 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

3172 ms

k2.css

k2.css

880 ms

jquery.jcarousel.css

jquery.jcarousel.css

442 ms

skin.css

skin.css

878 ms

style.css

style.css

1085 ms

core.js

core.js

1317 ms

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caption.js

1317 ms

k2.js

k2.js

1739 ms

jquery.noconflict.js

jquery.noconflict.js

1761 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

1768 ms

ppc.safejquery.start.js

ppc.safejquery.start.js

2175 ms

ppc.safejquery.end.js

ppc.safejquery.end.js

2206 ms

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2206 ms

jquery.cycle.all.2.74.js

jquery.cycle.all.2.74.js

2868 ms

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2653 ms

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2429 ms

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2397 ms

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3438 ms

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467 ms

ga.js

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24 ms

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1981 ms

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924 ms

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2010 ms

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TG-Logo.jpg

1326 ms

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702 ms

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443 ms

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443 ms

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439 ms

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444 ms

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2634 ms

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1324 ms

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4065 ms

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4503 ms

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4467 ms

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4923 ms

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8099 ms

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8056 ms

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12595 ms

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13381 ms

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12481 ms

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439 ms

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15722 ms

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16746 ms

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14099 ms

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13411 ms

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16963 ms

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14256 ms

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15571 ms

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13520 ms

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15420 ms

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15545 ms

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14557 ms

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15970 ms

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Grow-to-eat.jpg

15765 ms

Tips-bannerApril.jpg

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15162 ms

ATlantic.jpg

ATlantic.jpg

13011 ms

Subscribe-banner-April.jpg

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13854 ms

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13967 ms

Gregor.jpg

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15382 ms

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13610 ms

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Protek%20Web%20Banner%20Ad%202.jpg

19494 ms

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12541 ms

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12572 ms

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12460 ms

Accessibility Review

thegardener.co.za accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thegardener.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thegardener.co.za SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thegardener.co.za 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 Thegardener.co.za 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

thegardener.co.za

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