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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

blackdragonforge.com

Black Dragon Forge | Gas Forges, Bladesmith Training & Tools

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

791 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Black Dragon Forge content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blackdragonforge.com

We build and sell forges, train bladesmiths and knifemakers, and offer a range of specialist tools and services for knifemakers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackdragonforge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 791 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackdragonforge.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,330 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blackdragonforge.com

791 ms

gtm.js

80 ms

constants.js

38 ms

pubsub.js

55 ms

global.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 250 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (226 requests) were addressed to the original Blackdragonforge.com, 4% (9 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 2% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Blackdragonforge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 965.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

14.5 MB

After Optimization

13.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackdragonforge.com main page is 14.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 830.8 kB

  • Original 905.1 kB
  • After minification 801.0 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 104.2 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 830.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 114.0 kB

  • Original 13.4 MB
  • After minification 13.3 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. Black Dragon Forge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 151.6 kB
  • After minification 140.7 kB
  • After compression 133.8 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 17.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 47.9 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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. Blackdragonforge.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (29%)

Requests Now

246

After Optimization

174

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 246 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Dragon Forge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blackdragonforge.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

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

blackdragonforge.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackdragonforge.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blackdragonforge.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 Blackdragonforge.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 Black Dragon Forge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: