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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thesoildoctor.com

Lawn & Garden products - Soils - Mulches - Fertilizers - Stones - Pavers

Page Load Speed

920 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

621 ms

Page Rendered

203 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesoildoctor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 824 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesoildoctor.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesoildoctor.com

96 ms

www.thesoildoctor.com

165 ms

style.css

33 ms

script.js

65 ms

menu.js

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Thesoildoctor.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesoildoctor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

226.5 kB

After Optimization

194.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesoildoctor.com main page is 226.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 190.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.5 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 181.8 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. Thesoildoctor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 10.4 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 623 B

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. Thesoildoctor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (31%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

thesoildoctor.com

thesoildoctor.com

96 ms

www.thesoildoctor.com

www.thesoildoctor.com

165 ms

style.css

style.css

33 ms

script.js

script.js

65 ms

menu.js

menu.js

95 ms

css

css

34 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

33 ms

fon.jpg

fon.jpg

33 ms

border_left.jpg

border_left.jpg

33 ms

space.gif

space.gif

63 ms

fon_bej.gif

fon_bej.gif

66 ms

logotip.jpg

logotip.jpg

95 ms

pic_foto1.jpg

pic_foto1.jpg

125 ms

pic_foto2.jpg

pic_foto2.jpg

125 ms

pic_map.jpg

pic_map.jpg

97 ms

pic_foto3.jpg

pic_foto3.jpg

96 ms

fon_menu1.gif

fon_menu1.gif

98 ms

px_1menu.gif

px_1menu.gif

126 ms

menu_home.gif

menu_home.gif

127 ms

px_vst.gif

px_vst.gif

127 ms

menu_about.gif

menu_about.gif

128 ms

menu_products.gif

menu_products.gif

163 ms

menu_why-limestone.gif

menu_why-limestone.gif

161 ms

menu_msds-information.gif

menu_msds-information.gif

163 ms

menu_where-to-buy.gif

menu_where-to-buy.gif

163 ms

menu_contact.gif

menu_contact.gif

164 ms

px_2menu.gif

px_2menu.gif

164 ms

teni_menu.jpg

teni_menu.jpg

188 ms

fon1.jpg

fon1.jpg

187 ms

pic_left-pol.jpg

pic_left-pol.jpg

188 ms

fon_main.jpg

fon_main.jpg

193 ms

fon_ugol.jpg

fon_ugol.jpg

194 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

195 ms

Soil_LawnLime.png

Soil_LawnLime.png

248 ms

why.gif

why.gif

218 ms

why1.gif

why1.gif

219 ms

more1.gif

more1.gif

218 ms

OMRI.png

OMRI.png

220 ms

teni_v.jpg

teni_v.jpg

223 ms

pic_bot1.jpg

pic_bot1.jpg

249 ms

pic_bot2.jpg

pic_bot2.jpg

249 ms

pic_bot3.jpg

pic_bot3.jpg

251 ms

fon_copir.jpg

fon_copir.jpg

250 ms

border_right.jpg

border_right.jpg

226 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

20 ms

Accessibility Review

thesoildoctor.com accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

thesoildoctor.com best practices score

50

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesoildoctor.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesoildoctor.com 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 Thesoildoctor.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thesoildoctor.com

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