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the-arcade.ie

The Arcade – Ireland's best source for all things gamer and geek

Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

576 ms

Resources Loaded

12.3 sec

Page Rendered

937 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Arcade content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about the-arcade.ie

The Arcade is Ireland's best source for geek and gaming news and reviews. An award-winning site, the Arcade is where geeks are born!

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-arcade.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 576 ms and then it took 13.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the-arcade.ie performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.the-arcade.ie

576 ms

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Our browser made a total of 205 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original The-arcade.ie, 10% (21 requests) were made to I2.wp.com and 10% (20 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source I1.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The-arcade.ie main page is 3.3 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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 279.5 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 304.6 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 279.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. The Arcade images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 879.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 413.5 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 879.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 290.8 kB

  • Original 394.2 kB
  • After minification 350.9 kB
  • After compression 103.3 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. The-arcade.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 290.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (52%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

89

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Arcade. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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SEO Factors

the-arcade.ie SEO score

0

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 The-arcade.ie 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 The-arcade.ie 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Arcade. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: