Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thepixelempire.net

The Pixel Empire | Retro & Modern Video Game Reviews & Features

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

742 ms

About Website

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Reviews of retro & modern video games, across PC, consoles and mobile.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepixelempire.net page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepixelempire.net performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepixelempire.net

173 ms

www.thepixelempire.net

199 ms

www.thepixelempire.net

235 ms

ga.js

52 ms

sites.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Thepixelempire.net, 23% (10 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) relates to the external source Weebly.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 595.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Thepixelempire.net 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 87.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 350.6 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. The Pixel Empire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 804.0 kB
  • After minification 804.0 kB
  • After compression 650.5 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 153.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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. Thepixelempire.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (45%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pixel Empire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thepixelempire.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thepixelempire.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thepixelempire.net SEO score

69

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

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 Thepixelempire.net 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 Thepixelempire.net 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 The Pixel Empire. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: