Report Summary

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gardenlinks.co.uk

GardenLinks Directory | UK Gardening & Gardens | UK Garden Suppliers

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

341 ms

Resources Loaded

523 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

About Website

Visit gardenlinks.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Garden Links content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gardenlinks.co.uk

At GardenLinks, the directory for UK gardening and gardens, you'll find UK garden suppliers for plants, seeds, tools, garden sheds, lawn care, outdoor furniture and much more

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenlinks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 341 ms and then it took 680 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

gardenlinks.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gardenlinks.co.uk

341 ms

main.css

83 ms

GL_logo.png

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gardenlinks.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (341 ms) belongs to the original domain Gardenlinks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

13.2 kB

After Optimization

4.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Gardenlinks.co.uk main page is 13.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 9.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. 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 6.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 886 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Garden Links needs image optimization as it can save up to 886 B or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 870 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 968 B
  • After compression 425 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. Gardenlinks.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 870 B or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Links. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

gardenlinks.co.uk SEO score

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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 Gardenlinks.co.uk 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 Gardenlinks.co.uk 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 Garden Links. 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: