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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

blackstar.com

Black Star: Corporate Photography, Photojournalism and Stock Photography

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

75 ms

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BlackStar: Corporate Photography photojournalism and stock photography. Editorial Photography. Photojournalist, Photographers and Stock Photo

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackstar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackstar.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackstar.com

125 ms

blackstar.com

145 ms

photojournalism5.jpg

11 ms

menu_serv.jpg

111 ms

menu_con.jpg

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Blackstar.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackstar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

50.3 kB

After Optimization

44.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Blackstar.com main page is 50.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 42.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.0 kB, which is 13% 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 5.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 189 B

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.2 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 Star images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (44%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

9

  • Images

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackstar.com

blackstar.com

125 ms

blackstar.com

blackstar.com

145 ms

photojournalism5.jpg

photojournalism5.jpg

11 ms

menu_serv.jpg

menu_serv.jpg

111 ms

menu_con.jpg

menu_con.jpg

119 ms

assignment_photo.jpg

assignment_photo.jpg

402 ms

corporate_photography.jpg

corporate_photography.jpg

116 ms

editorial_photography.jpg

editorial_photography.jpg

119 ms

bottom_mid.jpg

bottom_mid.jpg

381 ms

photojournalists.jpg

photojournalists.jpg

215 ms

m_assign.jpg

m_assign.jpg

125 ms

m_pj.jpg

m_pj.jpg

225 ms

m_stock.jpg

m_stock.jpg

231 ms

menu_con_on.jpg

menu_con_on.jpg

10 ms

menu_serv_on.jpg

menu_serv_on.jpg

104 ms

m_assign_on.jpg

m_assign_on.jpg

11 ms

m_stock_on.jpg

m_stock_on.jpg

370 ms

m_pj_on.jpg

m_pj_on.jpg

377 ms

Accessibility Review

blackstar.com accessibility score

84

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

blackstar.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

blackstar.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackstar.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blackstar.com 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

blackstar.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Black Star. 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: