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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thetoolmerchants.com

Garden Tool Reviews and How-To Guides for Thoughtful Gardeners

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetoolmerchants.com page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetoolmerchants.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.169

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Thetoolmerchants.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (206 ms) belongs to the original domain Thetoolmerchants.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thetoolmerchants.com main page is 1.3 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 706.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 255.9 kB
  • After minification 248.8 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 221.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 706.5 kB
  • After minification 705.4 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. The Tool Merchants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 168.5 kB
  • After minification 168.5 kB
  • After compression 151.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 169.7 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 132.3 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. Thetoolmerchants.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (52%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Tool Merchants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thetoolmerchants.com accessibility score

94

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

thetoolmerchants.com 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

thetoolmerchants.com SEO score

99

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

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 Thetoolmerchants.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 Thetoolmerchants.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 data is detected on the main page of The Tool Merchants. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: