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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

groundsmart.com

Landscape Rubber Mulch - Ground Smart Rubber Mulch

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

781 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groundsmart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groundsmart.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

groundsmart.com

32 ms

www.groundsmartrubbermulch.com

1325 ms

animate.css

305 ms

style.min.css

425 ms

style.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Groundsmart.com, 90% (133 requests) were made to Groundsmartrubbermulch.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Groundsmartrubbermulch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (30%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Groundsmart.com main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 883.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 125.2 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 883.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 187.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 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. Ground Smart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 419.2 kB
  • After minification 419.2 kB
  • After compression 397.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 260 B

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Groundsmart.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 112 (82%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ground Smart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 109 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

groundsmart.com

groundsmart.com

32 ms

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1325 ms

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Accessibility Review

groundsmart.com accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

groundsmart.com 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

SEO Factors

groundsmart.com SEO score

93

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

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 Groundsmart.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 Groundsmart.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

groundsmart.com

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