It’s October, and that means RPGGeek’s annual Virtuacon, an all-online gaming convention, is just around the corner. Player sign-ups went live on October 1st, so now’s your chance to choose which games you’ll be playing during the con.
This year my participation is unfortunately limited due to conflicts with my day job’s schedule (I work Fridays and saturdays). I’ll be busy on Sunday though, so be sure to check out the following events:
There are six total player slots available at my Psi-punk table, so be sure to reserve your slot today. No experience is necessary and pre-gen characters are provided. to sign up, click the link above and leave a comment on the Google+ events page to let me know you’d like to have a seat in the game.
The Self-Publishing panel is an on Air event and anyone is welcome to watch. Click “Yes” on the “Are you going to watch?” button to have Google send you a reminder when the event goes live on Sunday morning, October 25th.
I’ll also be hosting a contest on the RPGGeek forums between October 18th and October 25th. It’s going to be a fun dice challenge based on our game Conservation of Ninjutsu and I’ll post the link when that event goes live.
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In fact, the total size of Izzyhelp.com main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 881.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
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 21.8 kB or 81% of the original size.
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. Izzy Help images are well optimized though.
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 85.2 kB or 66% of the original size.
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. Izzyhelp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.6 kB or 78% of the original size.
Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Izzyhelp.com, 20% (11 requests) were made to Help.start.2.izzyhelp.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (843 ms) belongs to the original domain Izzyhelp.com.
The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Izzy Help. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
As for redirects, our browser was forwarded to http://www.izzyhelp.com/ before it reached this domain.
Izzyhelp.com uses IP address which is currently shared with 4 other domains. The more sites share the same IP address, the higher the host server’s workload is. It is strongly recommended that the host server should be changed or the hosting provider should be requested to give a different (separate) IP address for this domain.
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Izzyhelp.com 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 Izzyhelp.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.
Izzyhelp.com has no SSL certificate. Web browsing can be safer with HTTPS connection, so we suggest that it should be obtained for this site.
The server of Izzyhelp.com is located in United Kingdom, but, unfortunately, we cannot identify the countries where the visitors come from and thus it’s impossible to define if the distance can potentially affect the page load time.
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Izzy Help. 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: