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boards.cityofheroes.com

NCSOFT - Global Videogame Publisher

Page Load Speed

17.8 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

15.5 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boards.cityofheroes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 15.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boards.cityofheroes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

2005 ms

normalize.css

1167 ms

fonts.css

456 ms

css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Boards.cityofheroes.com, 15% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.ncwest.ncsoft.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Static.ncsoft.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.2 sec) relates to the external source Us.ncsoft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 642.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boards.cityofheroes.com main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 865.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.0 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 865.0 kB
  • After minification 849.2 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. Boards Cityofheroes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 302.4 kB

  • Original 439.4 kB
  • After minification 418.3 kB
  • After compression 137.0 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 302.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 303.4 kB

  • Original 345.2 kB
  • After minification 289.5 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Boards.cityofheroes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (60%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boards Cityofheroes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

2005 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

1167 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

456 ms

css

css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

2234 ms

slick.css

slick.css

86 ms

common.css

common.css

3074 ms

aion-thumb-logo.png

aion-thumb-logo.png

134 ms

bladeandsoul-thumb-logo.png

bladeandsoul-thumb-logo.png

325 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

1138 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1113 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

2822 ms

foundation.topbar.js

foundation.topbar.js

1495 ms

foundation.tab.js

foundation.tab.js

1156 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1543 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

1280 ms

jquery.twbsPagination.min.js

jquery.twbsPagination.min.js

2441 ms

masonry.pkgd.min.js

masonry.pkgd.min.js

3169 ms

press-releases.js

press-releases.js

4748 ms

careers.js

careers.js

2277 ms

history.js

history.js

2446 ms

common.js

common.js

3768 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

2488 ms

main.js

main.js

2611 ms

analytics.min.js

analytics.min.js

1278 ms

gnb.min.js

gnb.min.js

1279 ms

guildwars2-thumb-logo.png

guildwars2-thumb-logo.png

2733 ms

lineage2-thumb-logo.png

lineage2-thumb-logo.png

2818 ms

wildstar-thumb-logo.png

wildstar-thumb-logo.png

2896 ms

NCSoft_Static-Image-website.jpg

NCSoft_Static-Image-website.jpg

331 ms

aion.jpg

aion.jpg

2569 ms

BnS2.jpg

BnS2.jpg

2768 ms

GuildWars2.jpg

GuildWars2.jpg

7234 ms

L2_updated.jpg

L2_updated.jpg

4627 ms

WS.jpg

WS.jpg

1611 ms

DinNextProRegular.woff

DinNextProRegular.woff

64 ms

DinNextProMedium.woff

DinNextProMedium.woff

64 ms

DinNextProLight.woff

DinNextProLight.woff

67 ms

DinNextProBold.woff

DinNextProBold.woff

65 ms

DinNextProHeavy.woff

DinNextProHeavy.woff

63 ms

gnb.css

gnb.css

145 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

152 ms

jobs

jobs

301 ms

ga.js

ga.js

57 ms

gnb.jpg

gnb.jpg

20 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

SEO Factors

boards.cityofheroes.com SEO score

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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 Boards.cityofheroes.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 Boards.cityofheroes.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boards Cityofheroes. 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: