Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

blackrock.com

Investment Management & Financial Services | BlackRock

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackrock.com page load time and found that the first response time was 104 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

blackrock.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blackrock.com

104 ms

www.blackrock.com

229 ms

minified-c1d140bf85df2a4c09dd1b23a85fc979.css

27 ms

minified-9418f6b9aa083ee0dc1e538374ca8227.css

187 ms

minified-82131fe4c33c7e20d7f11337cd80c937.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Blackrock.com, 23% (10 requests) were made to Assets.blackrock.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Assets.blackrock.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (68%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

631.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackrock.com main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 41.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 159.7 kB
  • After minification 151.2 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. Black Rock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 805.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 373.3 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 805.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 487.9 kB

  • Original 584.2 kB
  • After minification 584.0 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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. Blackrock.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 487.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (54%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Rock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackrock.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

blackrock.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blackrock.com SEO score

92

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

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 Blackrock.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 Blackrock.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 Black Rock. 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: