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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

rhs.org.uk

RHS - UK's leading gardening charity / RHS

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing RHS content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about rhs.org.uk

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity, join us for days out at stunning gardens, exclusive access to flower shows & expert advice.

Visit rhs.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Rhs.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 2.5 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

rhs.org.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rhs.org.uk

23 ms

rhs.org.uk

134 ms

www.rhs.org.uk

154 ms

isa.js

150 ms

gpt.js

331 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Rhs.org.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Tracking.audio.thisisdax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 717.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rhs.org.uk main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 825.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 711.4 kB

  • Original 825.2 kB
  • After minification 772.6 kB
  • After compression 113.7 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 711.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 732.7 kB
  • After minification 728.8 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. RHS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 630.3 kB
  • After minification 630.3 kB
  • After compression 629.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 435 B

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 90.7 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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. Rhs.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (61%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RHS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rhs.org.uk

rhs.org.uk

23 ms

rhs.org.uk

rhs.org.uk

134 ms

www.rhs.org.uk

www.rhs.org.uk

154 ms

isa.js

isa.js

150 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

331 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

48 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

22397541806.js

22397541806.js

55 ms

head.min.js

head.min.js

31 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

53 ms

search.min.js

search.min.js

36 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

44 ms

search.min.css

search.min.css

48 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

47 ms

answers.min.js

answers.min.js

125 ms

rhs-ga-tracking.min.js

rhs-ga-tracking.min.js

124 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

299 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

296 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

298 ms

e5d214f7-a310-42da-849b-afcba27ad735.json

e5d214f7-a310-42da-849b-afcba27ad735.json

74 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

294 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

357 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

285 ms

iphone-mockup-190423

iphone-mockup-190423

178 ms

Web-Use-2021_ChelseaGala_1431.jpg

Web-Use-2021_ChelseaGala_1431.jpg

181 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

179 ms

location

location

254 ms

freigsanproboo-webfont.woff

freigsanproboo-webfont.woff

56 ms

freigsanprolig-webfont.woff

freigsanprolig-webfont.woff

55 ms

freigsanprosem-webfont.woff

freigsanprosem-webfont.woff

55 ms

rhs-logo-compact.svg

rhs-logo-compact.svg

47 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

68 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

143 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

59 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

60 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

58 ms

rhs-icons.woff

rhs-icons.woff

58 ms

Home-Join-Rounel

Home-Join-Rounel

81 ms

thankyou-charity-roundel-rhs

thankyou-charity-roundel-rhs

82 ms

bg-pattern.png

bg-pattern.png

85 ms

gt-super-text-black.woff

gt-super-text-black.woff

68 ms

js

js

257 ms

7e6cfd5f42eb.js

7e6cfd5f42eb.js

244 ms

websdk.appsflyer.com

websdk.appsflyer.com

299 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

279 ms

geofeed

geofeed

151 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

117 ms

search.min.css

search.min.css

112 ms

Leucanthemum-vulgare_MAR0004882.jpg

Leucanthemum-vulgare_MAR0004882.jpg

59 ms

malvern-family-marquee-940x627.jpg

malvern-family-marquee-940x627.jpg

62 ms

Aglais-urticae_MAR0004932.jpg

Aglais-urticae_MAR0004932.jpg

62 ms

one.png

one.png

1063 ms

fada0c7ed1730.js

fada0c7ed1730.js

1051 ms

bg-magnolia-3-l

bg-magnolia-3-l

75 ms

bg-magnolia-3-r

bg-magnolia-3-r

19 ms

large-rhs-logo

large-rhs-logo

19 ms

Accessibility Review

rhs.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

rhs.org.uk 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

rhs.org.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

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

rhs.org.uk

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