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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blackstone.com

Home - Blackstone

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

540 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackstone.com page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackstone.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackstone.com

258 ms

lib

85 ms

bcom

41 ms

bcom

79 ms

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Blackstone.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (456 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackstone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (42%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackstone.com main page is 2.4 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 84.1 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 65.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Blackstone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 834.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 370.5 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 834.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 90.3 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Blackstone.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (56%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackstone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackstone.com

blackstone.com

258 ms

lib

lib

85 ms

bcom

bcom

41 ms

bcom

bcom

79 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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34 ms

css

css

56 ms

css

css

72 ms

css

css

137 ms

css

css

138 ms

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35 ms

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47 ms

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WebResource.axd

33 ms

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134 ms

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132 ms

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157 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

19 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

193 ms

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blackstone-logo.png

168 ms

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home-wheel-btn.png

169 ms

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169 ms

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168 ms

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168 ms

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169 ms

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168 ms

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139 ms

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11 ms

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183 ms

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69 ms

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146 ms

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200 ms

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blackstone-logo.png

63 ms

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collect

20 ms

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33 ms

syndication

syndication

166 ms

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41 ms

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124 ms

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102 ms

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59 ms

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34 ms

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33 ms

Accessibility Review

blackstone.com accessibility score

96

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

blackstone.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

blackstone.com SEO score

86

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

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 Blackstone.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 Blackstone.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

blackstone.com

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