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forums.metacritic.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

306 ms

Page Rendered

971 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.metacritic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 1.3 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Forums.metacritic.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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190 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Forums.metacritic.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (190 ms) belongs to the original domain Forums.metacritic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 997.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

879.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.metacritic.com main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 95 B

  • Original 268 B
  • After minification 268 B
  • After compression 173 B

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 95 B or 35% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 399.6 kB
  • After minification 380.0 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. Forums Metacritic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 865.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 470.0 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 865.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 112.1 kB

  • Original 141.2 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Forums.metacritic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

SEO Factors

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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 Forums.metacritic.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 Forums.metacritic.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 Forums Metacritic. 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: