Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

community.lambdageneration.com

LambdaGeneration - The home of all things Valve

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

community.lambdageneration.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Community.lambdageneration.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 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 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

community.lambdageneration.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

community.lambdageneration.com

17 ms

community.lambdageneration.com

1431 ms

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132 ms

logo-text.5e1ee43.png

70 ms

title-source.b08301d.png

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Community.lambdageneration.com, 72% (88 requests) were made to Media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Community.lambdageneration.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (24%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Community.lambdageneration.com main page is 6.2 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. 85% 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 394.3 kB

  • Original 595.4 kB
  • After minification 588.3 kB
  • After compression 201.1 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 394.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB

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. Obviously, Community Lambda Generation needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 855.9 kB
  • After minification 855.9 kB
  • After compression 853.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 75.6 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. Community.lambdageneration.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (20%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

94

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community Lambda Generation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

community.lambdageneration.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

community.lambdageneration.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

community.lambdageneration.com SEO score

81

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Community.lambdageneration.com 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 Community.lambdageneration.com 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 Community Lambda Generation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: