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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

bladehq.com

Knives, EDC, and Outdoor Gear - Huge Selection | Blade HQ

Page Load Speed

342 ms in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

253 ms

Page Rendered

56 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bladehq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 309 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bladehq.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bladehq.com

33 ms

bladehq.com

35 ms

www.bladehq.com

107 ms

v1

61 ms

vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Bladehq.com, 20% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (107 ms) belongs to the original domain Bladehq.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (22%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bladehq.com main page is 7.1 MB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 8.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 174.5 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Blade HQ images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 507.4 kB

  • Original 813.9 kB
  • After minification 770.3 kB
  • After compression 306.5 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 507.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 877.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 930.4 kB
  • After compression 169.9 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. Bladehq.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 877.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blade HQ. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bladehq.com accessibility score

97

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.

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

bladehq.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bladehq.com SEO score

98

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 Bladehq.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 Bladehq.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 description is not detected on the main page of Blade HQ. 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: