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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gtghydroponics.com

Hydroponic Systems, Grow Lights, and more at GTG Hydroponics

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

103 ms

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About Website

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At GTG Hydroponics, we provide hydroponic systems, hydroponics grow lights, CO2, organic fertilizers, high pressure sodium lights, and such for indoor or outdoor organic gardens. Call toll-free

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gtghydroponics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gtghydroponics.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gtghydroponics.com

274 ms

gtghydroponics.com

391 ms

main.js

141 ms

main.css

270 ms

ga.js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Gtghydroponics.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (868 ms) belongs to the original domain Gtghydroponics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

81.7 kB

After Optimization

61.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gtghydroponics.com main page is 81.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 39.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 12.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 37.7 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. GTG Hydroponics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 2.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 735 B

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. Gtghydroponics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GTG Hydroponics. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gtghydroponics.com

gtghydroponics.com

274 ms

gtghydroponics.com

gtghydroponics.com

391 ms

main.js

main.js

141 ms

main.css

main.css

270 ms

ga.js

ga.js

65 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

101 ms

button_on_home.gif

button_on_home.gif

101 ms

button_off_shop.gif

button_off_shop.gif

103 ms

button_off_forum.gif

button_off_forum.gif

176 ms

button_off_faq.gif

button_off_faq.gif

172 ms

button_endcap.gif

button_endcap.gif

173 ms

featured_items.gif

featured_items.gif

253 ms

761.gif

761.gif

677 ms

2543.gif

2543.gif

256 ms

2558.gif

2558.gif

868 ms

2588.gif

2588.gif

315 ms

13.jpg

13.jpg

291 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

302 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

Accessibility Review

gtghydroponics.com accessibility score

43

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gtghydroponics.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gtghydroponics.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gtghydroponics.com 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 Gtghydroponics.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

gtghydroponics.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GTG Hydroponics. 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: