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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

boardgameguru.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

345 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boardgameguru.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boardgameguru.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.boardgameguru.co.uk

647 ms

jquery.js

55 ms

ekmppc.min.js

468 ms

cart.css

444 ms

ekmppco.min.js

466 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Boardgameguru.co.uk, 34% (30 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to 77.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (769 ms) relates to the external source Files.ekmcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

757.1 kB

After Optimization

458.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boardgameguru.co.uk main page is 757.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 307.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 116.4 kB

  • Original 133.0 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 18.8 kB, which is 14% 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 116.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 307.9 kB
  • After minification 295.1 kB

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. Boardgameguru images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 168.5 kB

  • Original 273.5 kB
  • After minification 210.0 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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 168.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 978 B

  • Original 42.7 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Boardgameguru.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (64%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boardgameguru. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.boardgameguru.co.uk

www.boardgameguru.co.uk

647 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

55 ms

ekmppc.min.js

ekmppc.min.js

468 ms

cart.css

cart.css

444 ms

ekmppco.min.js

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466 ms

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checkout.css

480 ms

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shopui.css

115 ms

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84 ms

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50 ms

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62 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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72 ms

productimagebadge.css

productimagebadge.css

66 ms

productimagebadge.min.js

productimagebadge.min.js

67 ms

shopui.js

shopui.js

116 ms

stats.js

stats.js

440 ms

stats-global.js

stats-global.js

462 ms

css

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38 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

fa-safe.css

fa-safe.css

198 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

217 ms

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518 ms

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519 ms

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602 ms

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604 ms

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js

63 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

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107 ms

collect

collect

254 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

329 ms

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234 ms

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481 ms

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563 ms

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563 ms

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565 ms

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565 ms

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prod_t.png

647 ms

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prod_tr.png

648 ms

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bdy_b.png

649 ms

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232 ms

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ga.js

147 ms

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68 ms

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36 ms

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31 ms

collect

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74 ms

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39 ms

56 ms

Accessibility Review

boardgameguru.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

boardgameguru.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

boardgameguru.co.uk SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boardgameguru.co.uk 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 Boardgameguru.co.uk 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

boardgameguru.co.uk

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