Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

blackanddecker.ie

Power Tools | Garden Tools | Household Products | BLACK+DECKER

Page Load Speed

120.1 sec in total

First Response

9.4 sec

Resources Loaded

109.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

blackanddecker.ie screenshot

About Website

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Official website of BLACK+DECKER®. Make completing projects easier than ever with our range of innovative power tools, garden tools, home products and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackanddecker.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 9.4 sec and then it took 110.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 149 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

blackanddecker.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blackanddecker.ie

9391 ms

ps-widget.js

79 ms

lift.js

33 ms

google_tag.script.js

10023 ms

reset.css

9092 ms

Our browser made a total of 206 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (178 requests) were addressed to the original Blackanddecker.ie, 11% (23 requests) were made to Bynder.sbdinc.com and 0% (1 request) were made to Cdn.pricespider.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Blackanddecker.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackanddecker.ie main page is 3.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 224.0 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 243.6 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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 224.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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 And DECKER images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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 22.2 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 62.8 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. Blackanddecker.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (54%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 56 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackanddecker.ie accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

blackanddecker.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackanddecker.ie SEO score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Blackanddecker.ie 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 Blackanddecker.ie 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 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: