Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

kurobane.biz

くろばね商店会公式ホームページ

Page Load Speed

16.2 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

7.9 sec

kurobane.biz screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kurobane.biz page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 14.1 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

kurobane.biz performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kurobane.biz

2123 ms

kurobane.gif

354 ms

logo.gif

538 ms

button-a.gif

540 ms

160305-index.jpg

541 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (140 requests) were addressed to the original Kurobane.biz, 5% (8 requests) were made to Asumi.shinobi.jp and 1% (2 requests) were made to X5.tubakurame.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Kurobane.biz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 528.8 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Kurobane.biz main page is 2.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 479.7 kB

  • Original 538.4 kB
  • After minification 312.7 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 225.7 kB, which is 42% 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 479.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Kurobane images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 11.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (9%)

Requests Now

156

After Optimization

142

The browser has sent 156 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kurobane. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kurobane.biz accessibility score

57

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

kurobane.biz best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

kurobane.biz SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    SHIFT_JIS

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kurobane.biz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese 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 Kurobane.biz main page’s claimed encoding is shift_jis. 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

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