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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

blades-uk.com

Swords, Blades UK, Sword, knives, Martial Arts, Samurai, Samuri, Lord Rings, Movie Collectables

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

780 ms

Page Rendered

276 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blades-uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blades-uk.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blades-uk.com

309 ms

blades.css

129 ms

japanese-swords.jpg

66 ms

martial-arts-equipment.jpg

193 ms

logo_bg.jpg

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Blades-uk.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (385 ms) belongs to the original domain Blades-uk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

252.2 kB

After Optimization

209.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blades-uk.com main page is 252.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 219.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 17.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 219.5 kB
  • After minification 202.4 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. Blades UK images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Blades-uk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blades UK. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

blades-uk.com

blades-uk.com

309 ms

blades.css

blades.css

129 ms

japanese-swords.jpg

japanese-swords.jpg

66 ms

martial-arts-equipment.jpg

martial-arts-equipment.jpg

193 ms

logo_bg.jpg

logo_bg.jpg

140 ms

swords.jpg

swords.jpg

193 ms

samurai-swords.jpg

samurai-swords.jpg

141 ms

logo1.jpg

logo1.jpg

141 ms

bladesuk22.jpg

bladesuk22.jpg

194 ms

cards.jpg

cards.jpg

383 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

258 ms

bukpersian_S.jpg

bukpersian_S.jpg

323 ms

nunchakus_dvd_S.jpg

nunchakus_dvd_S.jpg

318 ms

riddicks_S.jpg

riddicks_S.jpg

385 ms

Accessibility Review

blades-uk.com accessibility score

56

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blades-uk.com 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

SEO Factors

blades-uk.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blades-uk.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blades-uk.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

blades-uk.com

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