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growlights.net

GrowLights.Net | The Grow Light Super Store

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

652 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

928 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Growlights.net page load time and found that the first response time was 652 ms and then it took 3.3 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

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Network Requests Diagram

www.growlights.net

652 ms

static.css

76 ms

prototype.js

232 ms

ccard.js

148 ms

validation.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Growlights.net, 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (892 ms) belongs to the original domain Growlights.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 933.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

698.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Growlights.net main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 683.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 177.6 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 39.8 kB, which is 18% 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 188.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 473.9 kB
  • After minification 449.7 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. Grow Lights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 508.0 kB

  • Original 683.7 kB
  • After minification 537.0 kB
  • After compression 175.7 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 508.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.3 kB

  • Original 257.1 kB
  • After minification 194.4 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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. Growlights.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (43%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grow Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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 Growlights.net 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 Growlights.net 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 Grow Lights. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: