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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thegameaisle.com

The Game Aisle • Kim Vandenbroucke and Brainy Chick, Inc.

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Game Aisle content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thegameaisle.com

The Game Aisle is the blog of Kim Vandenbroucke where she reviews games she likes and talks about what it's like to be part of the tabletop game industry. This page discusses the history and link...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegameaisle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegameaisle.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegameaisle.com

1217 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

128 ms

css

27 ms

style.css

346 ms

404.css

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Thegameaisle.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Snapwidget.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegameaisle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 775.2 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

441.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegameaisle.com main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 546.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 66.2 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 50.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 182.1 kB
  • After minification 154.2 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. Obviously, The Game Aisle needs image optimization as it can save up to 27.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 342.3 kB

  • Original 546.8 kB
  • After minification 531.7 kB
  • After compression 204.5 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 342.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 355.1 kB

  • Original 421.2 kB
  • After minification 323.7 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Thegameaisle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 355.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (63%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Game Aisle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegameaisle.com

www.thegameaisle.com

1217 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

128 ms

css

css

27 ms

style.css

style.css

346 ms

404.css

404.css

179 ms

public.css

public.css

179 ms

style.css

style.css

178 ms

style.css

style.css

193 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

201 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

379 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

258 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

281 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

12 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

953 ms

main.js

main.js

322 ms

photon.js

photon.js

372 ms

public.js

public.js

371 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

10 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

57 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

495 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

496 ms

e-201613.js

e-201613.js

9 ms

css

css

16 ms

linkee-big.jpg

linkee-big.jpg

1100 ms

easter-bunny-back.jpg

easter-bunny-back.jpg

862 ms

the-game-aisle-logo-2015-01.jpg

the-game-aisle-logo-2015-01.jpg

497 ms

Brainy_Chick_Logo_sm.jpg

Brainy_Chick_Logo_sm.jpg

495 ms

css

css

39 ms

1033 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

278 ms

entypo.svg

entypo.svg

279 ms

entypo.woff

entypo.woff

278 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

29 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

222 ms

hovercard.css

hovercard.css

74 ms

services.css

services.css

76 ms

g.gif

g.gif

59 ms

combined.css

combined.css

27 ms

smoothDivScroll.css

smoothDivScroll.css

24 ms

stack_161235.js

stack_161235.js

117 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

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12907130_1759643127606882_274261339_n.jpg

289 ms

small_share_sprite.png

small_share_sprite.png

54 ms

play_small.png

play_small.png

5 ms

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306 ms

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12501609_200095197033930_1452819487_n.jpg

375 ms

nr-892.min.js

nr-892.min.js

33 ms

Accessibility Review

thegameaisle.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thegameaisle.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thegameaisle.com SEO score

96

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

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 Thegameaisle.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 Thegameaisle.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

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