blur.com website review

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 261 ms of main-thread work and 288 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.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Vimeo and Google Analytics), adding 298 KiB and 264 ms of main-thread time.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

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.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 4.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.2 s to 3.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 26 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (12), scripts 315 KiB (7) and stylesheets 24 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.67 g of CO₂e: 80.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Your title is only 11 characters: “Blur Studio”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 17 pages on blur.com and 0 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

/feed, /careers, /projects/gears-of-war-e-day-launch, /projects/new-reel-2025, /projects/love-death-robots-volume-4 and /projects/secret-level and 7 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/careers, /projects/new-reel-2025, /projects/secret-level, /projects/exodus, /projects/modern-warfare-2 and /projects/valorant-revelation and 3 others have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

blur.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 18 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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 Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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 3 cookies, 1 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 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.