Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

horticulturesource.com

Horticulture Source – Gardening Marketplace

Page Load Speed

14.1 sec in total

First Response

396 ms

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

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About Website

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Specialty Retailer of Horticultural, Organic & Hydroponics Gardening Supplies. Featuring Sun System Grow Lighting products. Your one stop garden shop with 15,200+ garden products!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Horticulturesource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 396 ms and then it took 13.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

horticulturesource.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.248

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

horticulturesource.com

396 ms

stylesheet.css

173 ms

flexslider.css

175 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

41 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

294 ms

Our browser made a total of 232 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Horticulturesource.com, 4% (10 requests) were made to Sumome.com and 3% (8 requests) were made to Image2.pubmatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Horticulturesource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (56%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Horticulturesource.com main page is 3.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 262.2 kB

  • Original 342.0 kB
  • After minification 338.7 kB
  • After compression 79.8 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 262.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 781.2 kB
  • After minification 748.8 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. Horticulture Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 601.7 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 1.0 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 571.5 kB

  • Original 613.8 kB
  • After minification 608.9 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. Horticulturesource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 571.5 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 104 (46%)

Requests Now

224

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 224 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Horticulture Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

horticulturesource.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

horticulturesource.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

horticulturesource.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

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