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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hlmulch.com

H & L Mulch Delivery Howard County MD Topsoil Columbia Ellicott City Maryland

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

916 ms

Page Rendered

247 ms

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About Website

Visit hlmulch.com now to see the best up-to-date H L Mulch content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hlmulch.com

H & L Mulch delivers mulch, topsoil and dirt throughout Howard County, Maryland and surrounding areas. Call or email for a delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hlmulch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hlmulch.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.264

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hlmulch.com

100 ms

hlmulch.com

140 ms

www.hlmulch.com

145 ms

www.hlmulch.com

111 ms

style.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Hlmulch.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Countywebsitestats.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (172 ms) relates to the external source Countywebsitestats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.4 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hlmulch.com main page is 1.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.9 kB, which is 19% 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 7.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. H L Mulch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 288.1 kB
  • After minification 288.1 kB
  • After compression 286.4 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 878 B

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. Hlmulch.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of H L Mulch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hlmulch.com

hlmulch.com

100 ms

hlmulch.com

hlmulch.com

140 ms

www.hlmulch.com

www.hlmulch.com

145 ms

www.hlmulch.com

www.hlmulch.com

111 ms

style.css

style.css

21 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

37 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

71 ms

bootstrap-dropdownhover.min.css

bootstrap-dropdownhover.min.css

56 ms

css

css

50 ms

general.css

general.css

53 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

36 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

56 ms

bootstrap-dropdownhover.js

bootstrap-dropdownhover.js

68 ms

api.js

api.js

45 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

68 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

60 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

172 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

154 ms

head.png

head.png

67 ms

recycling.png

recycling.png

96 ms

dbg.png

dbg.png

19 ms

HL_Mulch_Delivery_Columbia_Maryland.jpg

HL_Mulch_Delivery_Columbia_Maryland.jpg

95 ms

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a8IbNovtLWfR7T7bMJwrA4KU.ttf

73 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

139 ms

Accessibility Review

hlmulch.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.

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

Best Practices

hlmulch.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hlmulch.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hlmulch.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 Hlmulch.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

hlmulch.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of H L Mulch. 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: