Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blacklockfoundry.com

Blacklock Triple Seasoned Cast Iron

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

blacklockfoundry.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Blacklock Foundry content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blacklockfoundry.com

Named after the original Lodge Cast Iron foundry, Blacklock blends heritage with a new triple seasoned™ surface and lightweight design.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blacklockfoundry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blacklockfoundry.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,130 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blacklock

76 ms

css_aJQmmy3NE_QoJdpehxIHfhLoDt8FAx-1a_RQXljXN-o.css

24 ms

css_R5xiddao88weWfQf63QSNLLSH4JeddM0BVuuLU6hJbs.css

46 ms

style2.css

71 ms

ga.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blacklockfoundry.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) relates to the external source Lodgecastiron.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

759.7 kB

After Optimization

531.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Blacklockfoundry.com main page is 759.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 274.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 179.3 kB

  • Original 217.1 kB
  • After minification 182.7 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.4 kB, which is 16% 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 179.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 182.8 kB
  • After minification 182.8 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. Blacklock Foundry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 274.2 kB
  • After minification 273.9 kB
  • After compression 245.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. Blacklockfoundry.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (79%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blacklock Foundry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blacklockfoundry.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

blacklockfoundry.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blacklockfoundry.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blacklockfoundry.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 Blacklockfoundry.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 Blacklock Foundry. 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: