Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gardenadvice.co.uk

GardenAdvice - Home of gardening knowledge and MyGardenTeam

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gardenadvice.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Garden Advice best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about gardenadvice.co.uk

Gardening advice from horticultural specialists in plants and gardens, plus gardening experts with our MyGardenTeam service and gardening courses for beginners

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenadvice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardenadvice.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardenadvice.co.uk

1557 ms

style.css

67 ms

lightbox.css

230 ms

mainga.css

134 ms

prototype.js

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gardenadvice.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gardenadvice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 287.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

705.3 kB

After Optimization

417.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Gardenadvice.co.uk main page is 705.3 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 462.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 34.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 89.9 kB

  • Original 462.9 kB
  • After minification 373.0 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 Advice needs image optimization as it can save up to 89.9 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.3 kB

  • Original 191.0 kB
  • After minification 136.9 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 156.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Gardenadvice.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (49%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gardenadvice.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gardenadvice.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gardenadvice.co.uk SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Gardenadvice.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 Gardenadvice.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 Advice. 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: