Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

blackanddecker.be

Elektrisch gereedschap | Tuingereedschap | Huishoudproducten | BLACK+DECKER

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

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About Website

Welcome to blackanddecker.be homepage info - get ready to check BLACK And DECKER best content for Belgium right away, or after learning these important things about blackanddecker.be

Officiële website van BLACK+DECKER®. Easy By Design, realiseer elk project met gemak dankzij ons steeds evoluerende assortiment elektrische gereedschappen, tuingereedschappen, huishoudtoestellen en me...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackanddecker.be page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms 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

blackanddecker.be performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackanddecker.be

302 ms

www.blackanddecker.be

675 ms

bde.css

194 ms

BDScripts.js

188 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

385 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Blackanddecker.be, 10% (8 requests) were made to and 9% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) relates to the external source Blackanddecker.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 600.0 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackanddecker.be main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 745.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 38.1 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 32.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 745.9 kB
  • After minification 709.5 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. BLACK And DECKER images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 303.6 kB

  • Original 480.5 kB
  • After minification 462.5 kB
  • After compression 176.9 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 303.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 227.7 kB

  • Original 444.2 kB
  • After minification 394.3 kB
  • After compression 216.6 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. Blackanddecker.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.7 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (65%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BLACK And DECKER. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackanddecker.be accessibility score

89

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

blackanddecker.be 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blackanddecker.be SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackanddecker.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Blackanddecker.be main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BLACK And DECKER. 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: