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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gamespot.com

Video Games Reviews & News - GameSpot

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

gamespot.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Games Pot content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gamespot.com

GameSpot delivers the best and most comprehensive video game and entertainment coverage, including news, reviews, trailers, walkthroughs, and guides for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Google ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gamespot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gamespot.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gamespot.com

298 ms

www.gamespot.com

1056 ms

sg_logo_full-simple.png

1010 ms

2752762-gblogo.gif

1028 ms

2752764-cvlogo.gif

1026 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Gamespot.com, 33% (2 requests) were made to Static.giantbomb.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Static.gamespot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gamespot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 MB (51%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gamespot.com main page is 8.9 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 11.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 151.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Games Pot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.3 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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 2.9 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 283.3 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. Gamespot.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Games Pot. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gamespot.com

gamespot.com

298 ms

www.gamespot.com

www.gamespot.com

1056 ms

sg_logo_full-simple.png

sg_logo_full-simple.png

1010 ms

2752762-gblogo.gif

2752762-gblogo.gif

1028 ms

2752764-cvlogo.gif

2752764-cvlogo.gif

1026 ms

nr-1044.min.js

nr-1044.min.js

205 ms

Accessibility Review

gamespot.com accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gamespot.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

gamespot.com SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gamespot.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 Gamespot.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

gamespot.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Games Pot. 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: