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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

southwestgardenguide.com

Southwest Garden Guide - Basic Gardening

Page Load Speed

29.4 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

20.7 sec

Page Rendered

8.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Southwest Garden Guide content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southwestgardenguide.com

Easy and simple flower and vegetable garden planting guide techniques for any backyard gardener who wants a bountiful harvest.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwestgardenguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 29.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

southwestgardenguide.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwestgardenguide.com

164 ms

www.southwestgardenguide.com

174 ms

3416767676-css_bundle_v2.css

142 ms

plusone.js

232 ms

q

221 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Southwestgardenguide.com, 16% (24 requests) were made to 1.bp.blogspot.com and 15% (22 requests) were made to 3.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) relates to the external source Widget.influenster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 561.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southwestgardenguide.com main page is 2.1 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 427.4 kB

  • Original 481.8 kB
  • After minification 478.4 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 427.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Southwest Garden Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 111.8 kB

  • Original 485.4 kB
  • After minification 485.3 kB
  • After compression 373.6 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 111.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Southwestgardenguide.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (31%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southwest Garden Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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164 ms

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174 ms

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Accessibility Review

southwestgardenguide.com accessibility score

57

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

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

southwestgardenguide.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

southwestgardenguide.com SEO score

93

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

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

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 Southwestgardenguide.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 Southwestgardenguide.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

southwestgardenguide.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Southwest Garden Guide. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: