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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

honestgamer.com

HonestGamers - Celebrating New, Retro and Indie Video Games for Consoles, Handhelds and PC!

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Honestgamer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

honestgamer.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

honestgamer.com

45 ms

www.honestgamers.com

1460 ms

css.css

27 ms

all.min.css

27 ms

patreon_button.png

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Honestgamer.com, 78% (25 requests) were made to Honestgamers.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Honestgamers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Honestgamer.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.0 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 26.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Honest Gamer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Honest Gamer. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

honestgamer.com

honestgamer.com

45 ms

www.honestgamers.com

www.honestgamers.com

1460 ms

css.css

css.css

27 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

27 ms

patreon_button.png

patreon_button.png

47 ms

steam_button.png

steam_button.png

70 ms

discord_button.png

discord_button.png

103 ms

facebook_button.png

facebook_button.png

103 ms

twitter_button.png

twitter_button.png

104 ms

hg.jpg

hg.jpg

173 ms

25.png

25.png

105 ms

artwork.jpg

artwork.jpg

103 ms

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artwork.jpg

121 ms

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artwork.jpg

103 ms

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artwork.jpg

131 ms

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115 ms

artwork.jpg

artwork.jpg

119 ms

i.gif

i.gif

43 ms

artwork.jpg

artwork.jpg

123 ms

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artwork.jpg

134 ms

artwork.jpg

artwork.jpg

135 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

230 ms

blogavatar.jpg

blogavatar.jpg

147 ms

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blogavatar.jpg

149 ms

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blogavatar.jpg

157 ms

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blogavatar.jpg

157 ms

blogavatar.jpg

blogavatar.jpg

171 ms

s11.g

s11.g

25 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

25 ms

background_image_04.jpg

background_image_04.jpg

152 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

js

js

87 ms

Accessibility Review

honestgamer.com accessibility score

61

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

honestgamer.com 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

honestgamer.com SEO score

92

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

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Honestgamer.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Honestgamer.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

honestgamer.com

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