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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

brandonswords.com

Online Swords Shop - Katana, Wakizashi, Tachi, Tanto and Ninja Sword - Brandon Swords

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

966 ms

Resources Loaded

9.9 sec

Page Rendered

588 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Brandon Swords content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about brandonswords.com

Brandon Swords is a Professional online Japanese samurai sword store / retail establishment. Serving top-quality Japanese sword and related products with the best price and top customer service. Shop ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brandonswords.com page load time and found that the first response time was 966 ms and then it took 10.5 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

brandonswords.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.234

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brandonswords.com

966 ms

brandonswords.com

3541 ms

hm.js

1812 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

1988 ms

bootstrap.min.css

2852 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Brandonswords.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Hm.baidu.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Brandonswords.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 284.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brandonswords.com main page is 1.9 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 13.3 kB, which is 17% 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 70.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 57.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Brandon Swords images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 792 B

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 105.6 kB
  • After compression 104.8 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 155.8 kB

  • Original 190.7 kB
  • After minification 183.2 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Brandonswords.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 155.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (38%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brandon Swords. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brandonswords.com

brandonswords.com

966 ms

brandonswords.com

brandonswords.com

3541 ms

hm.js

hm.js

1812 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

1988 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

2852 ms

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bootstrap.min.js

1976 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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2219 ms

css

css

47 ms

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2005 ms

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1776 ms

blog.css

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2047 ms

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2223 ms

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2235 ms

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style.css

2246 ms

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2263 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

2479 ms

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jquery.cookie.min.js

2477 ms

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jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

2491 ms

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2502 ms

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103 ms

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133 ms

hm.gif

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355 ms

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2271 ms

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374 ms

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685 ms

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821 ms

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821 ms

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840 ms

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988 ms

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74 ms

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65 ms

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Accessibility Review

brandonswords.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

brandonswords.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

brandonswords.com SEO score

83

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

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 Brandonswords.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 Brandonswords.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

brandonswords.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Brandon Swords. 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: