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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

sierrahelp.com

The Sierra Help Pages - Keeping the classics alive on modern PCs

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

272 ms

About Website

Visit sierrahelp.com now to see the best up-to-date Sierra Help content for Argentina and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sierrahelp.com

An online tech help database for playing classic Sierra On-line games on modern computers and Operating Systems

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sierrahelp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sierrahelp.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,770 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sierrahelp.com

212 ms

PAGE.CSS

66 ms

AC_ActiveX.js

122 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

123 ms

brand

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Sierrahelp.com, 14% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (569 ms) belongs to the original domain Sierrahelp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

379.2 kB

After Optimization

333.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sierrahelp.com main page is 379.2 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. 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. Javascripts take 171.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 27.3 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 18.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 96.1 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, Sierra Help needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 171.5 kB
  • After minification 171.5 kB
  • After compression 167.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 480 B

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Sierrahelp.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sierra Help. 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

sierrahelp.com accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sierrahelp.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sierrahelp.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sierrahelp.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 Sierrahelp.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 description is not detected on the main page of Sierra Help. 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: