Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

blackhawknetwork.com

ECommerce | Gift Cards | Payments | Merchant Service | BHN | Blackhawk Network

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

557 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackhawknetwork.com page load time and found that the first response time was 557 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

blackhawknetwork.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value48,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value74.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackhawknetwork.com

557 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

16 ms

prettyPhoto.css

23 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

19 ms

styles.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 194 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (192 requests) were addressed to the original Blackhawknetwork.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (824 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackhawknetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

992.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackhawknetwork.com main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 837.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 106.0 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 118.8 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. 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 106.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 795.9 kB
  • After minification 736.0 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. Blackhawk Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 309.8 kB

  • Original 436.2 kB
  • After minification 390.8 kB
  • After compression 126.4 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 309.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 721.8 kB

  • Original 837.1 kB
  • After minification 721.7 kB
  • After compression 115.3 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. Blackhawknetwork.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 721.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (18%)

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

157

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackhawk Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackhawknetwork.com accessibility score

65

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

blackhawknetwork.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackhawknetwork.com SEO score

76

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

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 Blackhawknetwork.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 Blackhawknetwork.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 Blackhawk Network. 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: