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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

playstation.com

PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & More

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

playstation.com screenshot

About Website

Visit playstation.com now to see the best up-to-date Play Station content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about playstation.com

Explore the new generation PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles - experience immersive gaming with thousands of hit games in every genre to rewrite the rules for what a PlayStation console can do.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Playstation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

playstation.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

playstation.com

124 ms

playstation.com

256 ms

158 ms

font-all.css

74 ms

font-sst-condensed.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Playstation.com, 34% (14 requests) were made to Static.playstation.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Gmedia.playstation.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Playstation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (68%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

675.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Playstation.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 838.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 549.1 kB

  • Original 630.9 kB
  • After minification 514.5 kB
  • After compression 81.8 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 116.4 kB, which is 18% 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 549.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 147 B

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 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. Play Station images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 344.4 kB

  • Original 838.9 kB
  • After minification 838.9 kB
  • After compression 494.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 344.4 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 554.4 kB

  • Original 645.2 kB
  • After minification 641.0 kB
  • After compression 90.7 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. Playstation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 554.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (82%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Play Station. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

playstation.com

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124 ms

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256 ms

158 ms

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Accessibility Review

playstation.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

playstation.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

playstation.com SEO score

83

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

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 Playstation.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 Playstation.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

playstation.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Play Station. 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: