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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

blax.directory

Blax - A Black Owned Business Directory. Discover the Best Black Owned businesses in the world. Blax - A Black Owned Business Directory

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blax.directory page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 2.2 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

blax.directory performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blax.directory

55 ms

blax.directory

81 ms

www.blax.directory

1093 ms

critical-styles.pkgd.min.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Blax.directory, 43% (22 requests) were made to Optimizecdn.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Collector.leaddyno.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Blax.directory.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blax.directory main page is 2.1 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 182.4 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 192.8 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.6 kB, which is 11% 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 182.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 792.8 kB
  • After minification 779.0 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. Blax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 481 B

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. Blax.directory has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (59%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blax.directory

blax.directory

55 ms

blax.directory

blax.directory

81 ms

www.blax.directory

www.blax.directory

1093 ms

critical-styles.pkgd.min.css

critical-styles.pkgd.min.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

63 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

81 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

80 ms

js

js

110 ms

css

css

39 ms

widget.js

widget.js

73 ms

sweetalert2.min.css

sweetalert2.min.css

77 ms

sweetalert2.min.js

sweetalert2.min.js

104 ms

formValidation.min.js

formValidation.min.js

76 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

77 ms

js

js

101 ms

jquery.lazy.min.js

jquery.lazy.min.js

101 ms

websiteScripts.min.js

websiteScripts.min.js

102 ms

blax-570-70_clipped_rev_1600.png

blax-570-70_clipped_rev_1600.png

76 ms

black-owned-business-directory-male-spokesperson-1b.png

black-owned-business-directory-male-spokesperson-1b.png

104 ms

black-owned-business-directory-female-spokesperson-1.png

black-owned-business-directory-female-spokesperson-1.png

103 ms

blax---a-black-owned-business-directory-logo-180-white.png

blax---a-black-owned-business-directory-logo-180-white.png

103 ms

twitterX.png

twitterX.png

305 ms

tfa.js

tfa.js

63 ms

non-critical-styles.pkgd.min.css

non-critical-styles.pkgd.min.css

46 ms

sweetalert2.min.css

sweetalert2.min.css

109 ms

sweetalert2.min.js

sweetalert2.min.js

109 ms

blax-bg.png

blax-bg.png

162 ms

font

font

159 ms

json

json

104 ms

image-placeholder.webp

image-placeholder.webp

54 ms

font

font

40 ms

font

font

41 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

75 ms

visit

visit

67 ms

x

x

71 ms

clickstream

clickstream

66 ms

jquery.lazy.min.js

jquery.lazy.min.js

30 ms

websiteScripts.min.js

websiteScripts.min.js

10 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

48 ms

elc

elc

16 ms

jquery.lazy.min.js

jquery.lazy.min.js

28 ms

limage-526-291-photo.png

limage-526-291-photo.png

73 ms

limage-525-489-photo.jpeg

limage-525-489-photo.jpeg

73 ms

limage-524-82-photo.png

limage-524-82-photo.png

82 ms

limage-523-101-photo.webp

limage-523-101-photo.webp

73 ms

limage-522-142-photo.png

limage-522-142-photo.png

83 ms

pimage-521-53-photo.jpg

pimage-521-53-photo.jpg

90 ms

websiteScripts.min.js

websiteScripts.min.js

8 ms

sweetalert2.min.css

sweetalert2.min.css

9 ms

sweetalert2.min.js

sweetalert2.min.js

10 ms

Accessibility Review

blax.directory accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

blax.directory 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

SEO Factors

blax.directory SEO score

78

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Blax.directory 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 Blax.directory 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

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