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herbalcom.com

Welcome HerbalCom

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Herbal Com content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about herbalcom.com

HerbalCom.com is now a part of Monterey Bay Herb Co., found at HerbCo.com. We’re excited to serve you and join forces with a team that shares our values and commitment to the botanicals industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herbalcom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herbalcom.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

main.css

145 ms

product.css

147 ms

ImageZoom.css

149 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

147 ms

main.js

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Herbalcom.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) relates to the external source Herbnhorse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.1 kB (36%)

Content Size

109.4 kB

After Optimization

70.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Herbalcom.com main page is 109.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 57.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 6.3 kB, which is 15% 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 35.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 624 B

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Obviously, Herbal Com needs image optimization as it can save up to 624 B or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Herbalcom.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (36%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herbal Com. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

herbalcom.com SEO score

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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 Herbalcom.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 Herbalcom.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

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