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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

chessgames.com

Chessgames.com: Chess Games Database & Community

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chessgames.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chessgames.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chessgames.com

92 ms

www.chessgames.com

180 ms

fbds.js

34 ms

ga.js

7 ms

header_stripes.gif

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Chessgames.com, 8% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) belongs to the original domain Chessgames.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

337.3 kB

After Optimization

160.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chessgames.com main page is 337.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 199.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 112.2 kB
  • After minification 110.7 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 86.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 19.4 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. Obviously, Chessgames needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 199.4 kB
  • After minification 182.2 kB
  • After compression 114.9 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 84.5 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (62%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chessgames. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

chessgames.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

chessgames.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chessgames.com SEO score

54

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chessgames.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 Chessgames.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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