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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hcmga.com

Hill City Master Gardeners

Page Load Speed

32.4 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

29.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

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Gardening tips and training, community service, and the Lynchburg Festival of Gardening.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hcmga.com page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 32.3 sec 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

hcmga.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hcmga.com

179 ms

www.hcmga.com

19096 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

228 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

235 ms

default.css

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Hcmga.com, 36% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 21% (12 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hcmga.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hcmga.com main page is 5.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 159.4 kB

  • Original 193.3 kB
  • After minification 190.0 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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 159.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Hcmga images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 154.8 kB
  • After minification 154.8 kB
  • After compression 116.2 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 38.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 38.7 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Hcmga.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (47%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hcmga. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hcmga.com

hcmga.com

179 ms

www.hcmga.com

www.hcmga.com

19096 ms

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mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

228 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

235 ms

default.css

default.css

232 ms

kp-IMG_5076-1200x450-1.jpg

kp-IMG_5076-1200x450-1.jpg

29 ms

HCMGA-lgoog.jpg

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427 ms

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22 ms

shortcodes-legacy.css

shortcodes-legacy.css

381 ms

shortcodes_responsive.css

shortcodes_responsive.css

729 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

385 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

870 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

408 ms

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jquery.fitvids.js

385 ms

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jquery.mobile.js

387 ms

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common.js

443 ms

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e-202444.js

42 ms

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457 ms

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508 ms

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17 ms

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32 ms

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34 ms

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46 ms

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41 ms

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38 ms

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44 ms

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myhouse.jpg

493 ms

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3437 ms

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31 ms

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474 ms

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HCMGA-lgoog.jpg

582 ms

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76 ms

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Accessibility Review

hcmga.com accessibility score

68

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

hcmga.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hcmga.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hcmga.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 Hcmga.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

hcmga.com

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