Report Summary

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eurogamer.co.uk

Eurogamer.net • Video game reviews, news, previews, forums and videos • Eurogamer.net

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

716 ms

eurogamer.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Eurogamer is the largest independent gaming website in Europe, providing news, reviews, previews, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eurogamer.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 3.8 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

eurogamer.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

eurogamer.co.uk

249 ms

www.eurogamer.net

323 ms

Icons.css

79 ms

tools.css

156 ms

base.css

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eurogamer.co.uk, 29% (49 requests) were made to Images.eurogamer.net and 16% (27 requests) were made to Eurogamer.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) relates to the external source Images.eurogamer.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 826.9 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Eurogamer.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 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. Images take 985.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 84.8 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 19.7 kB, which is 19% 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 86.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 985.6 kB
  • After minification 968.9 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. Eurogamer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 598.2 kB

  • Original 899.4 kB
  • After minification 890.9 kB
  • After compression 301.2 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 598.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 133.5 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Eurogamer.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (54%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eurogamer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

eurogamer.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

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