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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gambitbooks.com

Gambit Publications Limited - Gambit Chess Books

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

468 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

581 ms

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About Website

Visit gambitbooks.com now to see the best up-to-date Gambit Books content for Germany and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gambitbooks.com

Gambit Publications - a dedicated chess book publisher, whose aim is to produce a select range of quality chess books aimed at players of all levels. The company was founded by three chess players and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gambitbooks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 468 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

gambitbooks.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gambitbooks.com

468 ms

BookPages.css

175 ms

gambit.gif

276 ms

blank.gif

175 ms

aboutgambit.gif

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gambitbooks.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Gambitbooks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

463.2 kB

After Optimization

404.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gambitbooks.com main page is 463.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 410.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 47.4 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 32.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 410.0 kB
  • After minification 388.7 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. Gambit Books images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 795 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. Gambitbooks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gambit Books. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gambitbooks.com

gambitbooks.com

468 ms

BookPages.css

BookPages.css

175 ms

gambit.gif

gambit.gif

276 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

175 ms

aboutgambit.gif

aboutgambit.gif

175 ms

App%20Icon3.jpg

App%20Icon3.jpg

424 ms

union%20jack.jpg

union%20jack.jpg

293 ms

germantiny.jpg

germantiny.jpg

198 ms

Extreme_Chess_Tactics.jpg

Extreme_Chess_Tactics.jpg

311 ms

My_Secrets_in_the_Ruy_Lopez.jpg

My_Secrets_in_the_Ruy_Lopez.jpg

343 ms

Understanding_the_Sicilian.jpg

Understanding_the_Sicilian.jpg

359 ms

Your_First_Chess_Lessons.jpg

Your_First_Chess_Lessons.jpg

436 ms

Chess_Strategy_for_Kids.jpg

Chess_Strategy_for_Kids.jpg

379 ms

Instructive_Chess_Miniatures.jpg

Instructive_Chess_Miniatures.jpg

394 ms

A_Simple_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_For_White.jpg

A_Simple_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_For_White.jpg

514 ms

Fundamental_Checkmates.jpg

Fundamental_Checkmates.jpg

429 ms

Understanding_Rook_Endgames.jpg

Understanding_Rook_Endgames.jpg

523 ms

Chess_for_Life.jpg

Chess_for_Life.jpg

413 ms

Understanding_the_Scandinavian.jpg

Understanding_the_Scandinavian.jpg

488 ms

Problem_Chess.jpg

Problem_Chess.jpg

436 ms

A_Complete_Chess_Course.jpg

A_Complete_Chess_Course.jpg

444 ms

Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.jpg

Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.jpg

496 ms

John_Nunn's_Chess_Course.jpg

John_Nunn's_Chess_Course.jpg

522 ms

A_Cunning_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.jpg

A_Cunning_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.jpg

523 ms

Chess_Puzzles_for_Kids.jpg

Chess_Puzzles_for_Kids.jpg

531 ms

Attack_with_Black.jpg

Attack_with_Black.jpg

528 ms

A_Strategic_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.jpg

A_Strategic_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.jpg

572 ms

Vishy_Anand_World_Chess_Champion.jpg

Vishy_Anand_World_Chess_Champion.jpg

578 ms

A_Rock-Solid_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_Black.jpg

A_Rock-Solid_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_Black.jpg

611 ms

Understanding_Chess_Middlegames.jpg

Understanding_Chess_Middlegames.jpg

612 ms

The_Gambit_Book_of_Instructive_Chess_Puzzles.jpg

The_Gambit_Book_of_Instructive_Chess_Puzzles.jpg

612 ms

Chess_Openings_for_Kids.jpg

Chess_Openings_for_Kids.jpg

616 ms

home.gif

home.gif

648 ms

forthcoming.gif

forthcoming.gif

650 ms

complist.gif

complist.gif

685 ms

subject.gif

subject.gif

686 ms

ebooks.gif

ebooks.gif

684 ms

appbooks.gif

appbooks.gif

690 ms

german.gif

german.gif

731 ms

Accessibility Review

gambitbooks.com accessibility score

87

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

Best Practices

gambitbooks.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gambitbooks.com SEO score

69

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gambitbooks.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 Gambitbooks.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 description is not detected on the main page of Gambit Books. 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: