Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

xboxnow.com

Xbox Official Site: Consoles, Games, and Community | Xbox

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

xboxnow.com screenshot

About Website

Visit xboxnow.com now to see the best up-to-date Xbox Now content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about xboxnow.com

Experience the new generation of games and entertainment with Xbox. Explore consoles, new and old Xbox games and accessories to start or add to your collection.

Visit xboxnow.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Xboxnow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms 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

xboxnow.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xboxnow.com

156 ms

30 ms

Bootstrap.js

13 ms

2426010203.js

35 ms

xboxonemobile

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Xboxnow.com, 35% (36 requests) were made to Compass.xbox.com and 16% (16 requests) were made to Xbox.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (324 ms) relates to the external source Web.vortex.data.microsoft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 724.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Xboxnow.com main page is 5.4 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 156.6 kB

  • Original 178.3 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 38.2 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 156.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Xbox Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 447.9 kB

  • Original 669.8 kB
  • After minification 633.9 kB
  • After compression 221.9 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 447.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. Xboxnow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (53%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Xbox Now. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

xboxnow.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

xboxnow.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

xboxnow.com SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Xboxnow.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 Xboxnow.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 Xbox Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: