Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

greatlakesgardeners.com

Great Lakes Gardeners - GREAT LAKES CRUISES

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

699 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

264 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatlakesgardeners.com page load time and found that the first response time was 699 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Greatlakesgardeners.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

greatlakesgardeners.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatlakesgardeners.com

699 ms

ipb_help.css

135 ms

ipb_common.css

142 ms

ipb_styles.css

228 ms

calendar_select.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Greatlakesgardeners.com, 7% (9 requests) were made to I2.wp.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Greatlakesgardeners.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 840.4 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Greatlakesgardeners.com main page is 2.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 115.9 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 102.8 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 27.8 kB, which is 21% 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 115.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 129.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Obviously, Great Lakes Gardeners needs image optimization as it can save up to 129.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 501.3 kB

  • Original 694.4 kB
  • After minification 568.7 kB
  • After compression 193.1 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 501.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 113.1 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Greatlakesgardeners.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (49%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Lakes Gardeners. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greatlakesgardeners.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

greatlakesgardeners.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

greatlakesgardeners.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greatlakesgardeners.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 Greatlakesgardeners.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great Lakes Gardeners. 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: