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Latency Testing Disabled.

SiteSpeedLab can't measure the latency of the blizzard.com. While performing tests we do not get responses from the remote server 12.129.242.31.
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester
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WebSite Speed Profile

Site Speed Success Formula = good website latency + fast DNS lookup + high page load speed.
Site Speed Laboratory offers analysis of DNS Lookup speed & latency tests (ping) & Page Load speed for every website. Our analysis is based on data for May 24 2011. Since the first of July 2010 we carried out 22 tests from locations
for the main page of this website, the last of which were made about 3670 hours ago

Tests Summary

DNS Summary

Page Speed Summary

Site Speed Laboratory Summary for this website

Location Ping Ping,
change		 DNS Lookup DNS Resolve,
change		 Page Speed Page Speed,
change
 Usa
30.80% of traffic		 NY, New York — — 49 ms 74 % 188.47 Kb/s 9%
Florida, Tampa — — 119 ms 68 %
 Germany
7.60% of traffic		 Frankfurt — — 194 ms 53 %
 Canada
3.80% of traffic		 Montreal — — 30 ms —
 United Kingdom
2.90% of traffic		 Gloucester — — 163 ms —

Summary Widget

SiteSpeedLab Overall Website Rating for this website
Based on our speed test results table and considering features of the current webserver location (United states, Irvine), we concluded
overall This website speed rank is 80. That means 80% of the sites from the Irvine are slower for visitors than this website.

It is important to understand that you can't evaluate website speed without considering website audience location. You should evaluate the speed of the site considering location of your primary audience (visitors), and not just from abstract tests from various points of the planet. There is a chance that your website is quite slow for visitors from German but pretty quick for Australian users at the same time. Based on a primary audience location data Site Speed Laboratory maintains objective rating. Test servers located in the Usa and Germany are more useful and important to Blizzard.com because the shares of each country are 30.80 and 7.60 percent respectively.

You should not overestimate the importance of the website speed factor. Google has more than 200 ranking factors and website speed is just one of them.

DNS Lookup Speed

Browser should lookup domain name and get IP address of the server (12.129.242.31) before downloading the page. We test DNS resolve for this domain from 5 locations. That's how we've got the average time of receiving IP: 0.11s (which is better than 74% of all sites). For more detailed stats look at DNS tests graph and DNS resolve page for United states, Irvine location (Average value on the widget is an average DNS resolve time for websites hosted at the same location).

DNS History Graph

Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss

Compare DNS Speed

Compare DNS Lookup


vs

Our Servers
Usa
NY, New York
Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester

The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

Location Last check 7 day change 1 month change 3 month change 6 month change
 Usa
30.80% of traffic		 NY, New York 49 ms — — — 8%
125/116 ms
Florida, Tampa 119 ms — — — 30%
109/156 ms
 Germany
7.60% of traffic		 Frankfurt 194 ms — — — —
 Canada
3.80% of traffic		 Montreal 30 ms — — — 18%
50/61 ms
 United Kingdom
2.90% of traffic		 Gloucester 163 ms — — — 30%
193/149 ms

Fragment of Irvine DNS Speed rating table for this website

The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters

# Domain Compare DNS Resolve Speed Provider
1. Promax.com 37 ms Cox Communications
2. Sonnettech.com 41 ms Cox Communications
3. Key103.co.uk 41 ms Mediaspan Group
... ... ... ... ...
117. Iequus.com 110 ms Savvis Communications Corporation
118. Spokanetransit.com 110 ms New Dream Network, Llc
119. Blizzard.com 111 ms At&t Worldnet Services
120. Linksysbycisco.com 111 ms Sbc Internet Services
121. Tradingacademy.com 111 ms Cox Communications
... ... ... ... ...
486. C1rcaselect.com 991 ms Cox Communications

Page Speed Test

Content-Type's Weights
 
 
Content-Type's Weights by Hosts
 
 
Downloading page itself is the final stage of the testing. Actually, this is the last stage, after which page is displayed completely for user. The download speed depends on many factors. Main factors are the following: the width of the bandwidth up to the domain, the number of simultaneous download threads, speed of the server, a distance between user and domain web server. Recent measurements have shown the speed of page download for this domain is 188.473Kb/s (which is better than 80% of all sites in this region). For more detailed stats check out report for Irvine hosted websites.

 
 
 

Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Pagespeed Flash Table

Ways to improve website performance

Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external factors.

Keep Components under 25K

Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc. are less than 25K.
http://us.blizzard.com/_css/master.css  Content-Encoding: text/css. File size 25.42 Kb.
http://us.blizzard.com/_images/frontpage/newsarea.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 41.29 Kb.
http://us.blizzard.com/_images/layout/nav-bg.png  Content-Encoding: image/png. File size 48.96 Kb.
http://us.blizzard.com/_images/lang/en-us/nav-bar.gif  Content-Encoding: image/gif. File size 45.46 Kb.
http://us.media.blizzard.com/blizzard/_flash/bg-noflash.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 48.15 Kb.
http://us.blizzard.com/_images/frontpage/en-us/spotlight-cataclysm-ons...  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 65.03 Kb.
http://us.blizzard.com/_images/frontpage/en-us/spotlight-wowtrial-horde.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 98.45 Kb.

Alternate text for the images.

As you may already know, search engine that indexes your pages, do not have eyes. And all content you are trying to display on your site is just HTML & CSS code, images, Flash, etc for the robots. It is It's extremely important to describe each of the objects more datailed using ALT, TITLE and other tags.

Our robot has determined that the blizzard.com page has 4 images, which has no tag ALT. Tag ALT is a text field, that specifies an alternate text for an image. But not only. Search engines consider this tag as a supplemental result for assessing the content of your page entirely. Do not ignore it!

For example your page has this code:
206.   <img src="/_images/frontpage/newsthumbs/holiday2010.jpg">
We recommend you use rich img code in that place:
206.   <img src="/_images/frontpage/newsthumbs/holiday2010.jpg" alt="blizzard entertainment">


P.S. We used keyword for this image that seemed to us most important for your page. But you can go ahead and give to each of 4 images an ALT text. This problem requires responsible approach. No need to put the same text at alt tag of the all images. Imagine that the pictures do not show and try to make sure that users understand what is shown on the picture based on the alt tag

Specify image dimensions

The browser needs to know the actual dimensions of image (width and height) to quickly render webpage.

We have detected that the 4 images has no width and height.

If you do not specify the width and/or height, then in order to correctly display the image browser needs to download it and only then put on the screen. Otherwise, there is a chance browser will display elements under the picture inappropriately as well as the possible presence of "jumping" effect of the page content (until the page load is finished).

We provide below example of how to define the image /_images/frontpage/newsthumbs/fanart/101025.jpg dimensions:
252.   <img src="/_images/frontpage/newsthumbs/fanart/101025.jpg" width="IMAGE_WIDTH_HERE" height="IMAGE_HEIGHT_HERE">

Using H1 tag

Show main content of the page clearly. One of the most important internal website ranking factors is the H1 tag. It's a title of the document and the most powerful keyword, actually. Our robot did not find the h1 tag on the page.

Use the TITLE for A tag

As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing. For example, you have the link on your website:
36.   <a href="#" onclick="document.location ='http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/?locale=en-us&'" class="linkto-otherlanguage">
We suggest you to remake it in this way:
36.   <a href="#" onclick="document.location ='http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/?locale=en-us&'" class="linkto-otherlanguage" title="blizzard.com">
Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "blizzard.com" that describes the link #.


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