Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

gamesurge.com

GameSurge - For all arcade, computers, and home console games

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

851 ms

Page Rendered

207 ms

gamesurge.com screenshot

About Website

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Games news and reviews for computers, home consoles like Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Arcade and pinball. Featuring reviews, previews, interviews, strategy, strategies, screenshots, cheats, walkt...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gamesurge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gamesurge.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gamesurge.com

281 ms

show_ads.js

24 ms

black_line.jpg

132 ms

transparent.gif

137 ms

logo.jpg

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Gamesurge.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Z0.extreme-dm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (569 ms) belongs to the original domain Gamesurge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

220.6 kB

After Optimization

191.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Gamesurge.com main page is 220.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 110.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 29.7 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 5.2 kB, which is 18% 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 23.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 103.6 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. Games Urge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 80.8 kB
  • After minification 80.8 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Games Urge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gamesurge.com accessibility score

64

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

gamesurge.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gamesurge.com SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gamesurge.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 Gamesurge.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Games Urge. 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: