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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

giantbomb.com

Giant Bomb - Video game reviews, videos, forums and wiki.

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

882 ms

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

giantbomb.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Giant Bomb content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about giantbomb.com

The largest video game database online, Giant Bomb features Game Reviews, News, Videos, and Forums for the latest in PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, DS, 3DS, NGP, and more!

Visit giantbomb.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Giantbomb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

giantbomb.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.36

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value55.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.giantbomb.com

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24 ms

otSDKStub.js

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loader

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Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Giantbomb.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 1% (1 request) were made to Services.fandom.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (356 ms) belongs to the original domain Giantbomb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Giantbomb.com main page is 6.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 385.6 kB

  • Original 462.9 kB
  • After minification 455.3 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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 385.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 442.4 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Giant Bomb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 628.6 kB
  • After minification 628.6 kB
  • After compression 605.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 454 B

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 73.9 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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. Giantbomb.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (25%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Giant Bomb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

giantbomb.com accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

giantbomb.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

giantbomb.com SEO score

84

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

giantbomb.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Giant Bomb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: