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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

criticalgameplay.com

Critical Gameplay: Critical Game Design in Practice

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to criticalgameplay.com homepage info - get ready to check Critical Gameplay best content right away, or after learning these important things about criticalgameplay.com

15 year project in critical game design by Lindsay Grace. Implementing games that highlight social ludic bias.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Criticalgameplay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

criticalgameplay.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,030 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

criticalgameplay.com

107 ms

main.css

90 ms

FapYAQ-fTIw

120 ms

n-F3_EUxln4

530 ms

4883135

430 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Criticalgameplay.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (785 ms) belongs to the original domain Criticalgameplay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 314.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Criticalgameplay.com main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 31.4 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 4.0 kB, which is 11% 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 27.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 160.2 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Critical Gameplay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 290.8 kB
  • After minification 283.7 kB
  • After compression 204.3 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 86.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 105.9 kB
  • After minification 95.4 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Criticalgameplay.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Critical Gameplay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

criticalgameplay.com

criticalgameplay.com

107 ms

main.css

main.css

90 ms

FapYAQ-fTIw

FapYAQ-fTIw

120 ms

n-F3_EUxln4

n-F3_EUxln4

530 ms

4883135

4883135

430 ms

black_white_game.jpg

black_white_game.jpg

593 ms

Art_science_musuem_wide.jpg

Art_science_musuem_wide.jpg

584 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

171 ms

jquery.poptrox.min.js

jquery.poptrox.min.js

68 ms

jquery.scrolly.min.js

jquery.scrolly.min.js

73 ms

jquery.scrollex.min.js

jquery.scrollex.min.js

88 ms

browser.min.js

browser.min.js

87 ms

breakpoints.min.js

breakpoints.min.js

101 ms

util.js

util.js

111 ms

main.js

main.js

120 ms

wait2.jpg

wait2.jpg

528 ms

Big_Huggin_large.jpg

Big_Huggin_large.jpg

528 ms

healer_arcade_2019.JPG

healer_arcade_2019.JPG

536 ms

simultaneity_screenshot_2.jpg

simultaneity_screenshot_2.jpg

556 ms

Stolen_Kisses.jpg

Stolen_Kisses.jpg

528 ms

screen.png

screen.png

558 ms

levity2a.jpg

levity2a.jpg

581 ms

real_war_game.jpg

real_war_game.jpg

783 ms

charit_screeen.jpg

charit_screeen.jpg

557 ms

bang_gp_1.jpg

bang_gp_1.jpg

782 ms

poo_game.jpg

poo_game.jpg

785 ms

css

css

33 ms

fontawesome-all.min.css

fontawesome-all.min.css

529 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

11 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

32 ms

base.js

base.js

55 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

263 ms

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XRk6eFbYaDme_I9SSIFgFZ9I1nSvAmlSIHv6h58Lfu0.js

209 ms

embed.js

embed.js

130 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxPKTU1Kg.ttf

94 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9AMP6lQ.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9AMP6lQ.ttf

107 ms

Create

Create

215 ms

Create

Create

217 ms

api.js

api.js

195 ms

id

id

189 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

172 ms

intro.jpg

intro.jpg

172 ms

dark-arrow.svg

dark-arrow.svg

170 ms

two.png

two.png

171 ms

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6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3iu4nwlxdr3cOWxw.ttf

209 ms

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6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ik4zwlxdr3cOWxw.ttf

209 ms

Accessibility Review

criticalgameplay.com accessibility score

43

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

criticalgameplay.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

criticalgameplay.com SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Criticalgameplay.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 Criticalgameplay.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

criticalgameplay.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Critical Gameplay. 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: