Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

chessbc.ca

BCCS - British Columbia Chess Scene

Page Load Speed

839 ms in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

689 ms

Page Rendered

75 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Chess Bc content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about chessbc.ca

British Columbia Chess Scene is a personal website that promotes the game of chess throughout British Columbia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chessbc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 764 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

chessbc.ca performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chessbc.ca

75 ms

all.css

23 ms

basic1.css

46 ms

jsfuncs.js

46 ms

toc.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Chessbc.ca, 7% (2 requests) were made to Jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu and 7% (2 requests) were made to M1.nedstatbasic.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (352 ms) relates to the external source M1.nedstatbasic.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.2 kB (40%)

Content Size

66.2 kB

After Optimization

40.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Chessbc.ca main page is 66.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 32.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.9 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 928 B

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 32.0 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 Bc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 6.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 8.1 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Chessbc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chess Bc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chessbc.ca accessibility score

92

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.

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

chessbc.ca 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chessbc.ca SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Chessbc.ca 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 Chessbc.ca 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 Bc. 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: