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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

bamboodirect.com

TRADEWINDS BAMBOO NURSERY - Best Bamboo Plants and Shipping

Page Load Speed

876 ms in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

510 ms

Page Rendered

150 ms

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About Website

Visit bamboodirect.com now to see the best up-to-date BAMBOO Direct content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bamboodirect.com

Bamboo plant nursery specializing in mail order bamboo plants for interior and landscaping on the Oregon Coast. Also sells books, bamboo poles, rhizome barrier and tools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bamboodirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 660 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bamboodirect.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,470 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bamboodirect.com

216 ms

redirect.js

14 ms

plusone.js

60 ms

Him.hookerianus-TeaguesBlue.gif

48 ms

facebook-like-button.jpg

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Bamboodirect.com, 38% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (216 ms) belongs to the original domain Bamboodirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

104.8 kB

After Optimization

77.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bamboodirect.com main page is 104.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 72.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 16.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 67.6 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. BAMBOO Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 6.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (39%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BAMBOO Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bamboodirect.com

bamboodirect.com

216 ms

redirect.js

redirect.js

14 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

60 ms

Him.hookerianus-TeaguesBlue.gif

Him.hookerianus-TeaguesBlue.gif

48 ms

facebook-like-button.jpg

facebook-like-button.jpg

189 ms

3XSplitter.gif

3XSplitter.gif

186 ms

doormat.jpg

doormat.jpg

135 ms

Gib&Dibanner.gif

Gib&Dibanner.gif

187 ms

C.gibcooperi.jpg

C.gibcooperi.jpg

143 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

113 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

13 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

30 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

71 ms

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

21 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

43 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

13 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

13 ms

grlryt2bdKIyfMSOhzd1eA.woff

grlryt2bdKIyfMSOhzd1eA.woff

36 ms

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

31 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

49 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

3 ms

Accessibility Review

bamboodirect.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bamboodirect.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bamboodirect.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Bamboodirect.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 Bamboodirect.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

bamboodirect.com

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