Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

dotsgame.co

Dots and Boxes - Online version of the classic pen and paper game.

Page Load Speed

732 ms in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

255 ms

Page Rendered

442 ms

dotsgame.co screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Dots Game content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dotsgame.co

The classic pen and paper game Dots and Boxes. Play against a computer or other people. Supports 1 - 4 players and small to large grids. To win try to be the last player to go.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dotsgame.co page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 697 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

dotsgame.co performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.765

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dotsgame.co

35 ms

danp.us

55 ms

KhFuRdKbsXGE7o_8mpIADY-8kPI.js

13 ms

normalize.css

44 ms

base.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dotsgame.co, 75% (9 requests) were made to Danp.us and 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (71 ms) relates to the external source Danp.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

223.9 kB

After Optimization

207.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Dotsgame.co main page is 223.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 207.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 12.9 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 3.1 kB, which is 19% 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 12.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 207.3 kB
  • After minification 203.4 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. Dots Game images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (67%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dots Game. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dotsgame.co accessibility score

61

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dotsgame.co best practices score

83

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

dotsgame.co SEO score

50

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dotsgame.co 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 Dotsgame.co main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Dots Game. 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: