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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk

The Gardening Website - Everything for the Garden

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

558 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

727 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 558 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,090 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.72

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegardeningwebsite.co.uk

558 ms

stylesheets-site.css

170 ms

easyflashuploader.css

172 ms

auto-3.css

172 ms

ecreator-site-css.js

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.9 kB (70%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

348.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 975.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 103.1 kB

  • Original 138.0 kB
  • After minification 136.3 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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 103.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 170 B
  • After minification 170 B

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. The Gardening Website images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 670.1 kB

  • Original 975.0 kB
  • After minification 892.5 kB
  • After compression 304.8 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 670.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 38.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (74%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gardening Website. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegardeningwebsite.co.uk

www.thegardeningwebsite.co.uk

558 ms

stylesheets-site.css

stylesheets-site.css

170 ms

easyflashuploader.css

easyflashuploader.css

172 ms

auto-3.css

auto-3.css

172 ms

ecreator-site-css.js

ecreator-site-css.js

174 ms

ecreator-site.js

ecreator-site.js

249 ms

template.css

template.css

253 ms

jquery.cycle.all.2.74.js

jquery.cycle.all.2.74.js

425 ms

easyflashuploader.js

easyflashuploader.js

255 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

16 ms

ecreator-front.css

ecreator-front.css

91 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

171 ms

datePicker.css

datePicker.css

172 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

259 ms

jscroller2-1.1.css

jscroller2-1.1.css

84 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

176 ms

date.js

date.js

92 ms

datePicker.js

datePicker.js

93 ms

dimensions.js

dimensions.js

92 ms

bgiframe.js

bgiframe.js

93 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

194 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

185 ms

jsutils.js

jsutils.js

185 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

186 ms

jquery.dropdownplain.js

jquery.dropdownplain.js

185 ms

jquery.timers.js

jquery.timers.js

257 ms

jquery.autoscroller.js

jquery.autoscroller.js

258 ms

jquery-1.5.2.min.js

jquery-1.5.2.min.js

387 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.12.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.12.min.js

625 ms

jscroller2-1.61.js

jscroller2-1.61.js

269 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

51 ms

link.html

link.html

585 ms

garden_paving_486x60_banner.gif

garden_paving_486x60_banner.gif

564 ms

the_gardening_website_great_gardening_offers_2.gif

the_gardening_website_great_gardening_offers_2.gif

320 ms

badge-check-125x125.gif

badge-check-125x125.gif

73 ms

top-bg.jpg

top-bg.jpg

286 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

139 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

138 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

141 ms

google+.jpg

google+.jpg

140 ms

linkedin.gif

linkedin.gif

139 ms

mail.jpg

mail.jpg

285 ms

search-bg.jpg

search-bg.jpg

284 ms

search-icon.jpg

search-icon.jpg

284 ms

banner-bg.jpg

banner-bg.jpg

284 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

1088 ms

banner2.jpg

banner2.jpg

732 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

1047 ms

banner4.jpg

banner4.jpg

970 ms

gardenbuildingsdirect120x60_1.jpg

gardenbuildingsdirect120x60_1.jpg

317 ms

ggt-465a.jpg

ggt-465a.jpg

317 ms

perrywood_perrywood-logo-nostrap-red-193c_.jpg

perrywood_perrywood-logo-nostrap-red-193c_.jpg

368 ms

screwfixgardeninglogo.jpg

screwfixgardeninglogo.jpg

369 ms

print.gif

print.gif

462 ms

the_gardening_website_the_uks_number_one_website_for_gardening.jpg

the_gardening_website_the_uks_number_one_website_for_gardening.jpg

463 ms

click-here-to-view-button.gif

click-here-to-view-button.gif

547 ms

468x60_floras.gif

468x60_floras.gif

641 ms

garden_buildings_direct_4_may_2011.jpg

garden_buildings_direct_4_may_2011.jpg

723 ms

johnlewis210711.jpg

johnlewis210711.jpg

896 ms

johnlewis2107112.jpg

johnlewis2107112.jpg

977 ms

lighting_for_gardens_mainlogo_l4g.jpg

lighting_for_gardens_mainlogo_l4g.jpg

815 ms

sowandgrow.gif

sowandgrow.gif

982 ms

harrod_8_march_20116.jpg

harrod_8_march_20116.jpg

1065 ms

harrod_horticultural_cages_with_click_here_affiliate_banner.jpg

harrod_horticultural_cages_with_click_here_affiliate_banner.jpg

1227 ms

screwfix468x6029june2011.gif

screwfix468x6029june2011.gif

1235 ms

mowdirect210711.jpg

mowdirect210711.jpg

1241 ms

simply_paving.jpg

simply_paving.jpg

1362 ms

rolawn_july_2011.jpg

rolawn_july_2011.jpg

1323 ms

rolawnfeb2010.gif

rolawnfeb2010.gif

1254 ms

recently_updated8.jpg

recently_updated8.jpg

1571 ms

recently_updated6.jpg

recently_updated6.jpg

1549 ms

link.html

link.html

318 ms

collect

collect

68 ms

badge-check-125x125.gif

badge-check-125x125.gif

214 ms

the_sculpture_website_with_border_click_here.jpg

the_sculpture_website_with_border_click_here.jpg

1308 ms

john_lewis_gardening_gifts_31_march_2011_banner_1.jpg

john_lewis_gardening_gifts_31_march_2011_banner_1.jpg

1317 ms

badge-check-125x125.gif

badge-check-125x125.gif

1278 ms

ga.js

ga.js

2 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

54 ms

counter.270bdfcf33bafb0fc8fc.js

counter.270bdfcf33bafb0fc8fc.js

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

46 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

1182 ms

sh.953eb77977227bfd253ee158.html

sh.953eb77977227bfd253ee158.html

41 ms

shares.json

shares.json

49 ms

pixel

pixel

16 ms

pixel

pixel

14 ms

Accessibility Review

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thegardeningwebsite.co.uk 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

thegardeningwebsite.co.uk

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