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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

retrobase.net

RETROBASE.NET - Videogame preservation since February 2000

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

990 ms

Page Rendered

238 ms

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About Website

Visit retrobase.net now to see the best up-to-date RETROBASE content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about retrobase.net

Videogame preservation is our mission. We do cover Atari 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx, ColecoVision, Vectrex, Intellivision, PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16, Super Famicom / SNES, Sega 32x, Game Gear, Mark III...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retrobase.net page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

retrobase.net performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.189

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

retrobase.net

76 ms

www.retrobase.net

314 ms

bt_home-on.gif

119 ms

i.gif

71 ms

s9.g

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Retrobase.net, 92% (59 requests) were made to Images.staticjw.com and 2% (1 request) were made to T1.extreme-dm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) relates to the external source Redistats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

77.3 kB

After Optimization

43.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Retrobase.net main page is 77.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 41.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 41.1 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 33.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 36.2 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. RETROBASE images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (19%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

50

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RETROBASE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

retrobase.net

retrobase.net

76 ms

www.retrobase.net

www.retrobase.net

314 ms

bt_home-on.gif

bt_home-on.gif

119 ms

i.gif

i.gif

71 ms

s9.g

s9.g

72 ms

track.js

track.js

346 ms

bt_home-off.gif

bt_home-off.gif

107 ms

bt_search-on.gif

bt_search-on.gif

111 ms

bt_search-off.gif

bt_search-off.gif

110 ms

bt_forum-on.gif

bt_forum-on.gif

110 ms

bt_forum-off.gif

bt_forum-off.gif

106 ms

bt_faq-on.gif

bt_faq-on.gif

104 ms

bt_faq-off.gif

bt_faq-off.gif

123 ms

bt_links-on.gif

bt_links-on.gif

137 ms

bt_links-off.gif

bt_links-off.gif

128 ms

lnk_games-on.gif

lnk_games-on.gif

127 ms

lnk_games-off.gif

lnk_games-off.gif

123 ms

lnk_top_10-on.gif

lnk_top_10-on.gif

126 ms

lnk_top_10-off.gif

lnk_top_10-off.gif

135 ms

lnk_hardware-on.gif

lnk_hardware-on.gif

133 ms

lnk_hardware-off.gif

lnk_hardware-off.gif

138 ms

lnk_summary-on.gif

lnk_summary-on.gif

139 ms

lnk_summary-off.gif

lnk_summary-off.gif

163 ms

bg_main.jpg

bg_main.jpg

143 ms

bg_head.gif

bg_head.gif

149 ms

img_logo.gif

img_logo.gif

149 ms

hd_overview.gif

hd_overview.gif

150 ms

hd_atari.gif

hd_atari.gif

165 ms

lgo_5200.gif

lgo_5200.gif

153 ms

lgo_7800.gif

lgo_7800.gif

182 ms

lgo_jaguar.gif

lgo_jaguar.gif

165 ms

lgo_lynx.gif

lgo_lynx.gif

168 ms

tbl_arrow-1.gif

tbl_arrow-1.gif

162 ms

hd_bandai.gif

hd_bandai.gif

172 ms

lgo_wonderswan.gif

lgo_wonderswan.gif

171 ms

lgo_wonderswan_color.gif

lgo_wonderswan_color.gif

184 ms

hd_coleco.gif

hd_coleco.gif

177 ms

lgo_colecovision.gif

lgo_colecovision.gif

181 ms

hd_gce_mb.gif

hd_gce_mb.gif

221 ms

lgo_vectrex.gif

lgo_vectrex.gif

203 ms

hd_mattel.gif

hd_mattel.gif

170 ms

lgo_intellivision.gif

lgo_intellivision.gif

162 ms

hd_nec.gif

hd_nec.gif

124 ms

lgo_pc_engine.gif

lgo_pc_engine.gif

122 ms

hd_nintendo.gif

hd_nintendo.gif

127 ms

lgo_super_famicom.gif

lgo_super_famicom.gif

124 ms

hd_sega.gif

hd_sega.gif

120 ms

lgo_32x.gif

lgo_32x.gif

121 ms

lgo_game_gear.gif

lgo_game_gear.gif

110 ms

lgo_mark_3.gif

lgo_mark_3.gif

109 ms

lgo_mega_drive.gif

lgo_mega_drive.gif

124 ms

lgo_sg-1000.gif

lgo_sg-1000.gif

124 ms

hd_snk.gif

hd_snk.gif

126 ms

lgo_neo_geo.gif

lgo_neo_geo.gif

133 ms

lgo_neo_geo_pocket.gif

lgo_neo_geo_pocket.gif

115 ms

lgo_neo_geo_pocket_color.gif

lgo_neo_geo_pocket_color.gif

130 ms

hd_watara.gif

hd_watara.gif

116 ms

lgo_supervision.gif

lgo_supervision.gif

124 ms

tbl_point.gif

tbl_point.gif

121 ms

tbl_x.gif

tbl_x.gif

119 ms

tbl_bub-l.gif

tbl_bub-l.gif

116 ms

tbl_bub-r.gif

tbl_bub-r.gif

117 ms

casinotestreport-s_logo_250x250.png

casinotestreport-s_logo_250x250.png

113 ms

winthebet_logo_160x160.png

winthebet_logo_160x160.png

106 ms

Accessibility Review

retrobase.net accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

retrobase.net 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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

retrobase.net SEO score

71

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Retrobase.net 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 Retrobase.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

retrobase.net

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