Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au

Free Crossword Puzzles - American Hard Crossword for Tue, 1/Aug/2023

Page Load Speed

986 ms in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

560 ms

Page Rendered

222 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 782 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au

204 ms

crossword5.js

85 ms

crossword.css

78 ms

2colTable.css

73 ms

show_ads.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au, 22% (6 requests) were made to Ps.eyeota.net and 15% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (204 ms) belongs to the original domain Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.2 kB (64%)

Content Size

388.4 kB

After Optimization

138.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au main page is 388.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 307.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 63.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Free Crossword Puzzles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 184.8 kB

  • Original 307.8 kB
  • After minification 303.7 kB
  • After compression 123.0 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 184.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 990 B

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. Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (60%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Crossword Puzzles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au accessibility score

79

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au 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 Freecrosswordpuzzles.com.au 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 Free Crossword Puzzles. 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: