Blacksmith

What Dr Urls found on blacksmith.studio

From the audit of their public home page on 21/10/2026, worst first. Each links to what it means and how it is fixed.

• high
  Slow server response time (TTFB > 3s)

  Page speed is a confirmed Google ranking factor, and TTFB is the foundational component.

• high
  Time to First Byte (TTFB) is slow

  TTFB directly impacts all subsequent loading metrics.

• medium
  Cache-Control header missing

  Proper caching prevents browsers from re-downloading unchanged resources, dramatically improving repeat visit performance.

• medium
  Image file too large (>500 KB)

  Images typically account for 50-75% of a page's total weight.

• medium
  Images missing width and height attributes

  Missing image dimensions are the leading cause of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), a Core Web Vital and ranking factor.

• medium
  Link has empty anchor text

  Anchor text is one of the strongest signals search engines use to understand the content of the linked page.

• medium
  Missing canonical tag

  Canonical tags are the strongest signal you can send to search engines about which URL should be indexed when multiple URLs serve similar content.

• medium
  Open Graph og:image tag missing

  Social media posts with images receive significantly more engagement than text-only posts.

• medium
  Redirect chain detected

  Google has confirmed it follows up to 10 redirects, but long chains slow down crawling and may result in Googlebot abandoning the chain.

• medium
  Scripts without async or defer

  Synchronous scripts halt HTML parsing while the browser downloads and executes them.

• low
  H1 heading is too long

  A concise H1 provides a clear, focused signal about the page's primary topic.

• low
  Image has empty alt attribute

  If a content-relevant image has an empty alt attribute, search engines cannot understand what the image depicts, and it will not appear in image search results.

And 8 more. 5 security findings are not listed on this public page; the site's owner sees them in a full audit after claiming it.