Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

pathofexile.com

News - Path of Exile - A Free Online Action RPG

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

637 ms

pathofexile.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to pathofexile.com homepage info - get ready to check Path Of Exile best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about pathofexile.com

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pathofexile.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pathofexile.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pathofexile.com

84 ms

pathofexile.com

164 ms

www.pathofexile.com

567 ms

screen.css

42 ms

modernizr.custom.10209.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Pathofexile.com, 64% (27 requests) were made to P7p4m6s5.ssl.hwcdn.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (567 ms) belongs to the original domain Pathofexile.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Pathofexile.com main page is 5.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. 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 41.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 135.1 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Path Of Exile images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 149.1 kB

  • Original 247.7 kB
  • After minification 247.6 kB
  • After compression 98.6 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 149.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 533.3 kB

  • Original 633.6 kB
  • After minification 630.9 kB
  • After compression 100.4 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. Pathofexile.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 533.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (20%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Path Of Exile. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pathofexile.com accessibility score

77

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

Best Practices

pathofexile.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pathofexile.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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Pathofexile.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 Pathofexile.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Path Of Exile. 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: