Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

crossdown.com

Crossdown Puzzle Making Software

Page Load Speed

701 ms in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

244 ms

Page Rendered

371 ms

crossdown.com screenshot

About Website

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Crossword Software, crossword puzzle, acrostics, and cryptogram puzzle software and games.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crossdown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 615 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crossdown.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crossdown.com

86 ms

crossdown.css

30 ms

logo960.jpg

50 ms

email.jpg

40 ms

xwdindex.jpg

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Crossdown.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (141 ms) belongs to the original domain Crossdown.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

618.4 kB

After Optimization

543.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Crossdown.com main page is 618.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 596.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 10.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 596.4 kB
  • After minification 538.4 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. Crossdown images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 892 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. Crossdown.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crossdown. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

crossdown.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

crossdown.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

SEO Factors

crossdown.com 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Crossdown.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 Crossdown.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 Crossdown. 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: