Access blacksandco.com. Black Sand Company | Winston-Salem & Oak Ridge, NC | Landscaping & Construction Materials Supplier

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

38/100

10%

blacksandco.com

54 ms

blacksandco.com

29 ms

css2

66 ms

d-css-runtime-desktop-one-package-structured-global.min.css

68 ms

f3a359ec1139081a2d672f233a9cb572.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blacksandco.com, 24% (9 requests) were made to Lirp.cdn-website.com and 18% (7 requests) were made to Player.bettervideo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (139 ms) relates to the external source Player.bettervideo.com.

Content Size

490.6 kB

After Optimization

406.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Blacksandco.com main page is 490.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 214.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

Original 71.8 kB
After minification 67.9 kB
After compression 17.8 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 54.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

Original 57.0 kB
After minification 35.2 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, Black Sand Co needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.8 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

Original 214.1 kB
After minification 214.1 kB
After compression 210.7 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

Original 147.7 kB
After minification 147.7 kB
After compression 142.8 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. Blacksandco.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Sand Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.