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countrygardens.com

Country Gardens | Better Homes & Gardens | Better Homes & Gardens

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

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Celebrate your love of gardening with the inspiring stories from the pages of Country Gardens® magazine. You'll also find expert garden advice, casual decorating secrets, helpful tools and gadget...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Countrygardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

countrygardens.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

countrygardens.com

202 ms

651 ms

core-6.19.17.min.css

29 ms

karma.interstitial.js

123 ms

head-6.19.17.min.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Countrygardens.com, 39% (21 requests) were made to Images.meredith.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Images.meredith.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Countrygardens.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 117.5 kB
  • After minification 85.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 32.5 kB, which is 28% 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 100.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 576.8 kB
  • After minification 549.1 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. Country Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 652.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 962.0 kB
  • After compression 363.3 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 652.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 317.3 kB

  • Original 429.9 kB
  • After minification 429.9 kB
  • After compression 112.6 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. Countrygardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (43%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Country Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

countrygardens.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Country Gardens. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: