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gamedev.net

Home - GameDev.net

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gamedev.net page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gamedev.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gamedev.net

70 ms

index.html

394 ms

index.php

32 ms

css

50 ms

shCore.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Gamedev.net, 35% (29 requests) were made to Uploads.gamedev.net and 23% (19 requests) were made to Public.gamedev5.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) belongs to the original domain Gamedev.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Gamedev.net main page is 2.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 148.9 kB

  • Original 176.4 kB
  • After minification 155.4 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 21.0 kB, which is 12% 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 148.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 984.0 kB
  • After minification 895.3 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. Game Dev images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 343.0 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 1.0 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 202.9 kB

  • Original 240.5 kB
  • After minification 191.0 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. Gamedev.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (35%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Game Dev. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gamedev.net SEO score

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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 Gamedev.net 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 Gamedev.net 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 data is detected on the main page of Game Dev. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: