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theindigenousgardener.co.za

The Indigenous Gardener web magazine South Africa

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

72 ms

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About Website

Welcome to theindigenousgardener.co.za homepage info - get ready to check The Indigenous Gardener best content right away, or after learning these important things about theindigenousgardener.co.za

Indigenous gardening articles, Inspiration galleries, and A-Z Plant Library. We inspire Your indigenous garden. www.theindigenousgardener.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theindigenousgardener.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theindigenousgardener.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.theindigenousgardener.co.za

1237 ms

originTrials.41d7301a.bundle.min.js

39 ms

minified.js

41 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

39 ms

polyfill.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theindigenousgardener.co.za, 38% (25 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 38% (25 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.0 kB (53%)

Content Size

936.6 kB

After Optimization

435.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Theindigenousgardener.co.za main page is 936.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 627.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 487.4 kB

  • Original 627.9 kB
  • After minification 626.4 kB
  • After compression 140.4 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 487.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 74.6 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. Obviously, The Indigenous Gardener needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 223.4 kB
  • After minification 223.3 kB
  • After compression 220.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (21%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Indigenous Gardener. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theindigenousgardener.co.za SEO score

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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 Theindigenousgardener.co.za 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 Theindigenousgardener.co.za 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 The Indigenous Gardener. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: