Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

news.vgchartz.com

Video Game Charts, Game Sales, Top Sellers, Game Data - VGChartz

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.vgchartz.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.vgchartz.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value78,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value120.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

2010 ms

tyche.js

11 ms

DAC.js

14 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

60 ms

master-v3c.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original News.vgchartz.com, 8% (11 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Vgchartz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.2 kB (52%)

Content Size

743.1 kB

After Optimization

355.0 kB

In fact, the total size of News.vgchartz.com main page is 743.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 317.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 138.7 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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 138.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 206.7 kB
  • After minification 182.1 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. Obviously, News VGChartz needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 188.6 kB

  • Original 317.7 kB
  • After minification 317.7 kB
  • After compression 129.0 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 188.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. News.vgchartz.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (55%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News VGChartz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.vgchartz.com accessibility score

58

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

news.vgchartz.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

news.vgchartz.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.vgchartz.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 News.vgchartz.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 News VGChartz. 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: