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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

germinal.co.uk

Agricultural Grass and Forage Seed, Clover, Multi-Species

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Germinal content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about germinal.co.uk

Germinal is an agricultural grass and forage seed company based in the UK. Breeding productive, climate smart forage for UK farms.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Germinal.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

germinal.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,240 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

germinal.co.uk

121 ms

germinal.co.uk

130 ms

germinal.com

148 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

styles.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Germinal.co.uk, 80% (66 requests) were made to Germinal.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Germinal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Germinal.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 192.8 kB

  • Original 217.6 kB
  • After minification 157.7 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 60.0 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 192.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB

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. Germinal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 391.0 kB
  • After minification 391.0 kB
  • After compression 389.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 130.2 kB
  • After minification 128.2 kB
  • After compression 127.9 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. Germinal.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (65%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Germinal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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germinal.co.uk

121 ms

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130 ms

germinal.com

germinal.com

148 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

29 ms

styles.css

styles.css

19 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

22 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

24 ms

wpum.min.css

wpum.min.css

27 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

cookieblocker.min.css

32 ms

style.min.css

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33 ms

style.css

style.css

45 ms

front.bundle.css

front.bundle.css

46 ms

popup.bundle.css

popup.bundle.css

46 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

50 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

59 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

58 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

58 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

64 ms

shiv-respond.js

shiv-respond.js

64 ms

js

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129 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

91 ms

runtime.bundle.js

runtime.bundle.js

90 ms

front.bundle.js

front.bundle.js

91 ms

popupOnPageLoad.bundle.js

popupOnPageLoad.bundle.js

105 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

106 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

107 ms

index.js

index.js

108 ms

index.js

index.js

114 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

106 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

108 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

106 ms

jquery.nice-select.min.js

jquery.nice-select.min.js

116 ms

lightbox.min.js

lightbox.min.js

116 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

108 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

118 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

116 ms

global.min.js

global.min.js

116 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

152 ms

api.js

api.js

59 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

126 ms

index.js

index.js

127 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

113 ms

complianz.min.js

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112 ms

forms.js

forms.js

107 ms

ajax-forms.js

ajax-forms.js

181 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

295 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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208 ms

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158 ms

search-icon.svg

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156 ms

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149 ms

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149 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

215 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

1072 ms

close-icon.png

close-icon.png

27 ms

prev.png

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28 ms

next.png

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27 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

29 ms

slick-prev-arrow-icon.png

slick-prev-arrow-icon.png

28 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

91 ms

slick-next-arrow-icon.png

slick-next-arrow-icon.png

91 ms

slick.woff

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77 ms

anchor

anchor

51 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

7 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

11 ms

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47 ms

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45 ms

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35 ms

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46 ms

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49 ms

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recaptcha__en.js

36 ms

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31 ms

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116 ms

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31 ms

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131 ms

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224 ms

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39 ms

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40 ms

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49 ms

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58 ms

short-logo.svg

short-logo.svg

13 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

20 ms

Accessibility Review

germinal.co.uk accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

germinal.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

germinal.co.uk SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

germinal.co.uk

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