blacksocks.com website review

The page goes through 2 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 33.9 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

About 2.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 14.5 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 20.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 9.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (507 KiB).

hcaptcha.com costs a phone 1.1 s of main-thread work and 1.2 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 20. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

The page has 6,959 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (hcaptcha.com, Google Tag Manager and Shopify and others), adding 5.0 MB and 4.0 s of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 817 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

19 images could be 584 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Shopify costs a phone 596 ms of main-thread work and 1.3 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

117 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 65 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

Klaviyo costs a phone 390 ms of main-thread work and 758 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

The HTML itself could arrive about 400 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

Clarity costs a phone 375 ms of main-thread work and 54 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 290 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 150 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

6 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

The first text or image appears after 11.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 41.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Visually, the page fills in at 16.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 61.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.9 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 229 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 175 ms to 229 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The layout shifts by 0.142 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.3 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 12.5 MB in 849 requests on a phone: scripts 6.2 MB (360), images 3.6 MB (137) and other files 1.1 MB (297). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

blacksocks-herbstsale-hero-08_square_1200x1200_0d0c4e5f-124f is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.54 g of CO₂e: 425.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

ARIA dialog and alertdialog nodes should have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

33 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

11 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (6 elements).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your title is only 21 characters: “BLACKSOCKS Onlineshop”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 256 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: logo is not an absolute URL ("https:files/Blacksocks_Primary_Light_Logo_cb496a47-1f93…”.

2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 482 pages on blacksocks.com and 5 external pages.

/de-us/collections/socken, /de-us/collections/schwarze-socken and /de-us/collections/bunte-socken have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 115 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'innerHTML')”.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

Opening https://blacksocks.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.blacksocks.com/de-us/account.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

blacksocks.com is registered until Feb 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

blacksocks.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

Social proof on the homepage: 10 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 646 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be blacksocks.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 30 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

Loading the homepage contacts 44 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.