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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

kotaku.com

Kotaku | Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

709 ms

Page Rendered

687 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kotaku.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kotaku.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kotaku.com

112 ms

gtm.js

243 ms

analytics.js

227 ms

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120 ms

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226 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kotaku.com, 74% (39 requests) were made to I.kinja-img.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Kinja.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (452 ms) relates to the external source Kinja.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 713.1 kB (68%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

337.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Kotaku.com main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 814.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 713.0 kB

  • Original 814.4 kB
  • After minification 814.3 kB
  • After compression 101.4 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 713.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 174.4 kB
  • After minification 174.4 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. Kotaku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 94 B

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 61.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (16%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

41

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kotaku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kotaku.com accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

kotaku.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kotaku.com SEO score

86

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

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 Kotaku.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 Kotaku.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

kotaku.com

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