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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

opencritic.com

OpenCritic - Video Game Reviews from the Top Critics in Gaming - OpenCritic

Page Load Speed

938 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

344 ms

Page Rendered

552 ms

About Website

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The top critics in gaming. All in one place. OpenCritic is a review aggregator for video games, collecting reviews from the top publications in gaming such as IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, and Eurogamer.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opencritic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 896 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

opencritic.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

opencritic.com

42 ms

opencritic.com

37 ms

js

102 ms

widgets.js

76 ms

sdk.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Opencritic.com, 20% (5 requests) were made to Img.opencritic.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (155 ms) relates to the external source Static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.9 kB (67%)

Content Size

211.8 kB

After Optimization

69.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Opencritic.com main page is 211.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 172.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 141.9 kB

  • Original 172.0 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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 141.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 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. Open Critic images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (47%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open Critic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

opencritic.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

opencritic.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

opencritic.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Opencritic.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 Opencritic.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 Open Critic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: