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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ign.com

Video Game News, Reviews, and Walkthroughs - IGN

Page Load Speed

231 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

230.6 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ign.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 231 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 11 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ign.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ign.com

18 ms

www.ign.com

1465 ms

9878f20ab80ed401f70904af6546b292.css

46 ms

commentcount.js

313 ms

40f01e81d6e9279f5eb810fd88d3d113.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ign.com, 24% (17 requests) were made to Assets1.ignimgs.com and 17% (12 requests) were made to Oystatic.ignimgs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (115.2 sec) relates to the external source Static.adziff.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ign.com main page is 5.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 216.7 kB

  • Original 252.9 kB
  • After minification 224.1 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.8 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 216.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. IGN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 956.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 855.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 394.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Ign.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 855.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (42%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IGN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ign.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ign.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ign.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ign.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ign.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

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