nuclearblast.com website review

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

The page has 3,247 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Usercentrics CMP, Shopify and shop.app), adding 457 KiB and 865 ms of main-thread time.

Usercentrics CMP costs a phone 773 ms of main-thread work and 270 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.

About 137 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

16 images could be 263 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (48 KiB).

13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 218 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

23 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

9 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.

Your largest element takes 7.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God Chapter 2”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 459 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 114 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 207 requests on a phone: images 1.5 MB (40), other files 749 KiB (93) and scripts 574 KiB (64). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1211_Nightwish_TheGreatest30YearsOnEarth_Insta-Feed_1080x108 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).

1 image (76 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.83 g of CO₂e: 99.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 388 pages on nuclearblast.com and 7 external pages.

There is no https://www.nuclearblast.com/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.

https://www.nuclearblast.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

https://www.nuclearblast.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://www.nuclearblast.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.nuclearblast.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 163 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “ratingSnippet is not defined”.

Your longest form asks for 111 fields (0 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

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

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 989 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.