Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

chesscafe.com

ChessCafe.com – Since 1996

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chesscafe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.9 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

chesscafe.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.26

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chesscafe.com

1385 ms

kfh6jtl.js

119 ms

theme.css

71 ms

style.css

127 ms

styles.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Chesscafe.com, 21% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Chesscafe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.1 kB (57%)

Content Size

377.6 kB

After Optimization

163.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Chesscafe.com main page is 377.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 219.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 26.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 73.7 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. Chess Cafe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 144.5 kB

  • Original 219.5 kB
  • After minification 217.4 kB
  • After compression 74.9 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 144.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 44.5 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Chesscafe.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (67%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chess Cafe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chesscafe.com accessibility score

97

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

chesscafe.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

SEO Factors

chesscafe.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

    UTF-8

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

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