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bestof.ign.com

Best of 2010 Awards - Video Games, Movies, TV Shows & Comics - IGN

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

823 ms

Page Rendered

120 ms

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About Website

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The top games, movies, TV shows, comics and gear in IGN's Best of 2010 awards! The best video games for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PSP, DS, iPhone & iPad

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestof.ign.com page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 943 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestof.ign.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bestof.ign.com

219 ms

bestof2010.css

207 ms

wns6kpl.js

149 ms

sugarads-min.css

7 ms

sugarads-min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bestof.ign.com, 42% (18 requests) were made to Media.ignimgs.com and 16% (7 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (219 ms) belongs to the original domain Bestof.ign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 446.6 kB (62%)

Content Size

715.5 kB

After Optimization

268.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestof.ign.com main page is 715.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 609.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 410 B

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 49.7 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. Best Of IGN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 403.4 kB

  • Original 609.3 kB
  • After minification 605.9 kB
  • After compression 205.9 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 403.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 26.6 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Bestof.ign.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (44%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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bestof.ign.com

219 ms

bestof2010.css

bestof2010.css

207 ms

wns6kpl.js

wns6kpl.js

149 ms

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7 ms

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8 ms

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8 ms

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31 ms

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43 ms

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117 ms

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44 ms

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102 ms

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75 ms

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81 ms

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113 ms

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123 ms

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132 ms

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161 ms

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138 ms

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14 ms

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24 ms

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5 ms

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44 ms

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55 ms

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10 ms

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30 ms

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21 ms

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215 ms

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2 ms

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16 ms

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12 ms

SEO Factors

bestof.ign.com SEO score

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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 Bestof.ign.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 Bestof.ign.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

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