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gardens.com

Tips and Advice on Outdoor Gardening, Flower Gardens, Plants, & Seeds - Dave's Garden

Page Load Speed

254 ms in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

185 ms

Page Rendered

1 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the famous Dave's Garden website. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 186 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

gardens.com

68 ms

davesgarden.com

73 ms

v1

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gardens.com, 67% (2 requests) were made to Davesgarden.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (73 ms) relates to the external source Davesgarden.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.7 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

711.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Gardens.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 587.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 8.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 95.8 kB

  • Original 587.6 kB
  • After minification 491.7 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, Gardens needs image optimization as it can save up to 95.8 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 379.2 kB

  • Original 585.4 kB
  • After minification 568.6 kB
  • After compression 206.2 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 379.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Gardens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gardens. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gardens.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 Gardens.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gardens. 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: