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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

theplantlibrary.co.za

Indigenous Plants South Africa www.theplantlibrary.co.za

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

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About Website

Visit theplantlibrary.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Theplantlibrary content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theplantlibrary.co.za

A library of South African plants arranged in a variety of useful categories. The Plant Library. www.theplantlibrary.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theplantlibrary.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theplantlibrary.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,030 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theplantlibrary.co.za

82 ms

minified.js

34 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

29 ms

polyfill.min.js

81 ms

thunderbolt-commons.7700cd07.bundle.min.js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theplantlibrary.co.za, 44% (24 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 27% (15 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (990 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.9 kB (48%)

Content Size

849.6 kB

After Optimization

441.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theplantlibrary.co.za main page is 849.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 449.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 345.1 kB

  • Original 449.1 kB
  • After minification 447.4 kB
  • After compression 104.0 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 345.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 82.4 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. Theplantlibrary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 309.2 kB
  • After minification 309.2 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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 53.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theplantlibrary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theplantlibrary.co.za

www.theplantlibrary.co.za

82 ms

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34 ms

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29 ms

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81 ms

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71 ms

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194 ms

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24 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

71 ms

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23 ms

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195 ms

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Accessibility Review

theplantlibrary.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

Best Practices

theplantlibrary.co.za 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theplantlibrary.co.za 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 Theplantlibrary.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 Theplantlibrary.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

theplantlibrary.co.za

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