Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

plantsnap.com

PlantSnap - Plant Identifier App, #1 Mobile App for Plant Identification

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

plantsnap.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to plantsnap.com homepage info - get ready to check Plant Snap best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about plantsnap.com

PlantSnap is an easy-to-use plant identifier app. Use it for instant flower identification, tree identification, and other plant identification needs!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plantsnap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plantsnap.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value55,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value72.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plantsnap.com

11 ms

www.plantsnap.com

31 ms

smartbanner.min.css

11 ms

smartbanner.min.js

12 ms

pg.plantsnap.js

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Plantsnap.com, 12% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (13 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 714.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

8.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Plantsnap.com main page is 9.2 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. Images take 8.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 136.1 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 162.2 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 136.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 203.0 kB

  • Original 8.4 MB
  • After minification 8.2 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. Plant Snap images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 106.6 kB
  • After minification 105.5 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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 29.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 346.2 kB

  • Original 567.8 kB
  • After minification 567.6 kB
  • After compression 221.6 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. Plantsnap.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 346.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (61%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Snap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

plantsnap.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

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

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

plantsnap.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

plantsnap.com SEO score

62

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

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 Plantsnap.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 Plantsnap.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 data is detected on the main page of Plant Snap. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: