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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

bestcrosswords.com

Free Crossword Puzzles | BestCrosswords.com

Page Load Speed

270 ms in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

221 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Visit bestcrosswords.com now to see the best up-to-date Best Crosswords content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bestcrosswords.com

Solve 15 crossword puzzles daily and enjoy an archive of more than 100,000 grids. Play our crosswords in your web browser, smartphone, tablet or print them in high resolution.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestcrosswords.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 221 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestcrosswords.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestcrosswords.com

49 ms

www.bestcrosswords.com

58 ms

bootstrap-4.3.1.min-e1934fe0faa604ad6c0547f618e7f7ea.css

12 ms

stylesheet.min-ced374fa57573c9e1b477e06f0563fb8.css

25 ms

app

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Bestcrosswords.com, 12% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (88 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

182.3 kB

After Optimization

152.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestcrosswords.com main page is 182.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 117.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 25.3 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 21.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 9.6 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, Best Crosswords needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 41% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 117.3 kB
  • After minification 117.3 kB
  • After compression 115.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 70 B

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Bestcrosswords.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Crosswords. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bestcrosswords.com

bestcrosswords.com

49 ms

www.bestcrosswords.com

www.bestcrosswords.com

58 ms

bootstrap-4.3.1.min-e1934fe0faa604ad6c0547f618e7f7ea.css

bootstrap-4.3.1.min-e1934fe0faa604ad6c0547f618e7f7ea.css

12 ms

stylesheet.min-ced374fa57573c9e1b477e06f0563fb8.css

stylesheet.min-ced374fa57573c9e1b477e06f0563fb8.css

25 ms

app

app

29 ms

analytics.min-7500d243556e47c9cf2808c94c1b1bb0.js

analytics.min-7500d243556e47c9cf2808c94c1b1bb0.js

28 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

63 ms

js

js

88 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

28 ms

FontMetrics.2017.11.26.min.js

FontMetrics.2017.11.26.min.js

46 ms

javascript-detect-element-resize-jquery-0.5.3.min.js

javascript-detect-element-resize-jquery-0.5.3.min.js

46 ms

current-device-0.9.2.min.js

current-device-0.9.2.min.js

46 ms

modernizr-custom-3.6.0.1.min.js

modernizr-custom-3.6.0.1.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap.bundle-4.3.1.min-a454220fc07088bf1fdd19313b6bfd50.js

bootstrap.bundle-4.3.1.min-a454220fc07088bf1fdd19313b6bfd50.js

50 ms

main.min-6087941b469d226b09d8f787ea381b4c.js

main.min-6087941b469d226b09d8f787ea381b4c.js

45 ms

firebase-app.js

firebase-app.js

66 ms

firebase-messaging.js

firebase-messaging.js

68 ms

firebase-analytics.js

firebase-analytics.js

72 ms

notifications.js

notifications.js

75 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

59 ms

body-background-b6ca5634f1d7d6c5e45d7f25576f0cac.png

body-background-b6ca5634f1d7d6c5e45d7f25576f0cac.png

37 ms

logo-8237847ac19b5efdd31c12c1487f2391.svg

logo-8237847ac19b5efdd31c12c1487f2391.svg

36 ms

favicon-9f340f2186cb7a749a6bb13888c2ecc1.svg

favicon-9f340f2186cb7a749a6bb13888c2ecc1.svg

34 ms

login_large-6cb43faa7174fd4e650413ea250149f4.png

login_large-6cb43faa7174fd4e650413ea250149f4.png

35 ms

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feed-icon-14x14-2168a573d0d45bd2f9a89b8236453d61.png

19 ms

Accessibility Review

bestcrosswords.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bestcrosswords.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bestcrosswords.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

    ISO-8859-1

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Best Crosswords. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: