Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

games.dailystar.co.uk

Crosswords, Puzzles and Games | Free Online Games, Puzzles, Crosswords & Jumbles | Daily Record

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

657 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

games.dailystar.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Games.dailystar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 657 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

games.dailystar.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.126

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

games.dailystar.co.uk

657 ms

css

13 ms

js

28 ms

js

26 ms

1000

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Games.dailystar.co.uk, 24% (19 requests) were made to Amsarkadium-a.akamaihd.net and 16% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.arenaconnect.arkadiumhosted.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) belongs to the original domain Games.dailystar.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 461.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Games.dailystar.co.uk main page is 1.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 87.9 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 24.2 kB, which is 28% 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 73.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 40.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Games Daily Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 335.7 kB

  • Original 514.4 kB
  • After minification 514.0 kB
  • After compression 178.7 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 335.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Games.dailystar.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (35%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Games Daily Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

games.dailystar.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

games.dailystar.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

games.dailystar.co.uk SEO score

77

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Games.dailystar.co.uk 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 Games.dailystar.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Games Daily Star. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: