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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blackthreads.com

Black Threads | Kyra E. Hicks | Author, Quilter, African American Quilt Researcher

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

3.2 sec

Resources Loaded

13.2 sec

Page Rendered

649 ms

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About Website

Welcome to blackthreads.com homepage info - get ready to check Black Threads best content right away, or after learning these important things about blackthreads.com

Guide to African American Quilting and Quilt History! Local guilds, Black quilters, quilt patterns, art quilt exhibitions, and latest quilt books.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackthreads.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.2 sec and then it took 13.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackthreads.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackthreads.com

3229 ms

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7373 ms

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103 ms

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188 ms

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271 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Blackthreads.com, 52% (36 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Blackthreads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackthreads.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 41.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 976 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 Threads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 283.6 kB
  • After minification 283.6 kB
  • After compression 270.8 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 66.6 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. Blackthreads.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.9 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (57%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Threads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blackthreads.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.

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

blackthreads.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

blackthreads.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blackthreads.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 Blackthreads.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

blackthreads.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Black Threads. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: