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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

backyardgardening.net

Backyard Gardening - Guides, Tutorials, and Advice for Gardeners

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

625 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backyardgardening.net page load time and found that the first response time was 625 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

backyardgardening.net performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backyardgardening.net

625 ms

style.css

85 ms

show_ads.js

9 ms

BackyardGardeningBlog

70 ms

ca-pub-3280446741348688.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Backyardgardening.net, 14% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (625 ms) belongs to the original domain Backyardgardening.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

354.2 kB

After Optimization

298.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Backyardgardening.net main page is 354.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 251.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 14.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 251.1 kB
  • After minification 225.7 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. Backyard Gardening images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 76.6 kB
  • After compression 66.5 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 10.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Backyardgardening.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (60%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Backyard Gardening. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

backyardgardening.net

backyardgardening.net

625 ms

style.css

style.css

85 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

9 ms

BackyardGardeningBlog

BackyardGardeningBlog

70 ms

ca-pub-3280446741348688.js

ca-pub-3280446741348688.js

97 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

136 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

91 ms

icon5.gif

icon5.gif

547 ms

buzzboost-pwrd.gif

buzzboost-pwrd.gif

64 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

wood.jpg

wood.jpg

221 ms

contrepeat.gif

contrepeat.gif

63 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

192 ms

BYGlogo.gif

BYGlogo.gif

146 ms

feed-icon-24x24.gif

feed-icon-24x24.gif

146 ms

hr.gif

hr.gif

116 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

47 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

45 ms

ads

ads

294 ms

osd.js

osd.js

11 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

18 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

17 ms

ads

ads

248 ms

ads

ads

371 ms

3481805193284756304

3481805193284756304

30 ms

abg.js

abg.js

33 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

46 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

44 ms

s

s

53 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

52 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

13 ms

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

45 ms

icon5.gif

icon5.gif

434 ms

ping

ping

29 ms

optimize

optimize

43 ms

cse

cse

277 ms

domains

domains

7 ms

Accessibility Review

backyardgardening.net accessibility score

66

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

backyardgardening.net best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

backyardgardening.net SEO score

58

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 Backyardgardening.net 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 Backyardgardening.net 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

backyardgardening.net

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