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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

boardgamecentral.com

Board Game Central - Traditional and Family Board Games

Page Load Speed

789 ms in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

467 ms

Page Rendered

233 ms

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About Website

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Board Game Central is one of the web's premier sites for traditional and family board games that you can play with friends, family, or online with people from around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boardgamecentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 700 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boardgamecentral.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,030 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boardgamecentral.com

89 ms

www.boardgamecentral.com

137 ms

styles.css

15 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

25 ms

ClassicSixDiceFarkel.jpg

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Boardgamecentral.com, 26% (10 requests) were made to Cleversoul.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Rcm.amazon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (154 ms) belongs to the original domain Boardgamecentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

442.7 kB

After Optimization

393.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boardgamecentral.com main page is 442.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 360.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 39.3 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 30.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 360.0 kB
  • After minification 343.7 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. Board Game Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 234 B

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Boardgamecentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Board Game Central. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

boardgamecentral.com

boardgamecentral.com

89 ms

www.boardgamecentral.com

www.boardgamecentral.com

137 ms

styles.css

styles.css

15 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

25 ms

ClassicSixDiceFarkel.jpg

ClassicSixDiceFarkel.jpg

81 ms

cm

cm

5 ms

BoardGameNews

BoardGameNews

38 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

rocket-loader.min.js

15 ms

Pyramix.jpg

Pyramix.jpg

80 ms

MexicanTrainDominoesInAluminumCase.jpg

MexicanTrainDominoesInAluminumCase.jpg

81 ms

DanceCharades.jpg

DanceCharades.jpg

82 ms

DodgeDice.jpg

DodgeDice.jpg

82 ms

gc-gammon-728x90.jpg

gc-gammon-728x90.jpg

33 ms

risk-1959.jpg

risk-1959.jpg

88 ms

MensaSelectGames2013.jpg

MensaSelectGames2013.jpg

88 ms

scrabble-cubes.jpg

scrabble-cubes.jpg

32 ms

TheChessPieceStauntonChessSets.jpg

TheChessPieceStauntonChessSets.jpg

113 ms

skillgammon.jpg

skillgammon.jpg

87 ms

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83 ms

readmore.gif

readmore.gif

49 ms

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127 ms

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112 ms

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145 ms

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154 ms

feed-icon-12x12.gif

feed-icon-12x12.gif

113 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

97 ms

bgc-logo.png

bgc-logo.png

101 ms

searchsubmit.gif

searchsubmit.gif

95 ms

soc-32.png

soc-32.png

116 ms

foreground.png

foreground.png

109 ms

prev.png

prev.png

110 ms

next.png

next.png

154 ms

ClassicSixDiceFarkel.jpg

ClassicSixDiceFarkel.jpg

78 ms

Pyramix.jpg

Pyramix.jpg

78 ms

MexicanTrainDominoesInAluminumCase.jpg

MexicanTrainDominoesInAluminumCase.jpg

92 ms

DanceCharades.jpg

DanceCharades.jpg

90 ms

DodgeDice.jpg

DodgeDice.jpg

86 ms

print.css

print.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

27 ms

Accessibility Review

boardgamecentral.com accessibility score

83

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

boardgamecentral.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

boardgamecentral.com SEO score

62

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

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 Boardgamecentral.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 Boardgamecentral.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

boardgamecentral.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Board Game Central. 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: