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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

romrank.com

The Old Computer Roms,Emulators,Manuals and Magazines

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

463 ms

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About Website

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Retro gaming and computing resource for old school gamers. Old computer and console games, roms, emulators, manuals and forum

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Key Findings

We analyzed Romrank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

romrank.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theoldcomputer.com

361 ms

www.theoldcomputer.com

558 ms

main.css

124 ms

sir-clive-sinclair.jpg

727 ms

surly-badges.min.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Romrank.com, 17% (5 requests) were made to Sitefiles.theoldcomputer.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (929 ms) relates to the external source Sitefiles.theoldcomputer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

591.2 kB

After Optimization

546.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Romrank.com main page is 591.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 395.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 22.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 395.4 kB
  • After minification 377.0 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. Romrank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 843 B

  • Original 149.7 kB
  • After minification 149.7 kB
  • After compression 148.8 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Romrank.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (27%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Romrank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theoldcomputer.com

www.theoldcomputer.com

361 ms

www.theoldcomputer.com

www.theoldcomputer.com

558 ms

main.css

main.css

124 ms

sir-clive-sinclair.jpg

sir-clive-sinclair.jpg

727 ms

surly-badges.min.css

surly-badges.min.css

122 ms

cse.js

cse.js

46 ms

js

js

64 ms

DEC-PDP-12-Console.jpg

DEC-PDP-12-Console.jpg

833 ms

covid-19-update.jpg

covid-19-update.jpg

734 ms

emulators.png

emulators.png

834 ms

retro-christmas.jpg

retro-christmas.jpg

929 ms

theoldcomputer-pixel-banner-780.png

theoldcomputer-pixel-banner-780.png

275 ms

download-roms-icon.png

download-roms-icon.png

336 ms

download-emulators-icon.png

download-emulators-icon.png

336 ms

download-boxart-icon.png

download-boxart-icon.png

336 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

44 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

44 ms

default.css

default.css

47 ms

css2

css2

30 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

65 ms

branding.png

branding.png

61 ms

clear.png

clear.png

23 ms

back.gif

back.gif

285 ms

arrowstop.gif

arrowstop.gif

149 ms

ourcommunity.gif

ourcommunity.gif

212 ms

info.gif

info.gif

211 ms

joystick.png

joystick.png

212 ms

joystick.gif

joystick.gif

239 ms

font

font

33 ms

Accessibility Review

romrank.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

romrank.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

romrank.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

romrank.com

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