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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

glcc.org.uk

Greater London Chess Club

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

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About Website

Welcome to glcc.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Glcc best content right away, or after learning these important things about glcc.org.uk

Greater London Chess Club organises club competitions and league teams in central London. New players always welcome.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glcc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glcc.org.uk performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glcc.org.uk

201 ms

glcc.org.uk

405 ms

general.css

97 ms

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

12 ms

GlccLogo.gif

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Glcc.org.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (452 ms) belongs to the original domain Glcc.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

73.9 kB

After Optimization

54.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glcc.org.uk main page is 73.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 50.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 6.1 kB, which is 26% 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 17.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 48.4 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. Glcc images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 360 B
  • After minification 360 B
  • After compression 281 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. Glcc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (48%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glcc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

glcc.org.uk

glcc.org.uk

201 ms

glcc.org.uk

glcc.org.uk

405 ms

general.css

general.css

97 ms

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

12 ms

GlccLogo.gif

GlccLogo.gif

193 ms

glccoldvenue.jpg

glccoldvenue.jpg

276 ms

buttonleft.gif

buttonleft.gif

277 ms

buttonright.gif

buttonright.gif

277 ms

toplcorner.gif

toplcorner.gif

278 ms

toprcorner.gif

toprcorner.gif

285 ms

LionsHome_seal.jpg

LionsHome_seal.jpg

288 ms

stg-front.gif

stg-front.gif

355 ms

stg-back.gif

stg-back.gif

356 ms

ginlane.gif

ginlane.gif

452 ms

LionsHome_sealb.jpg

LionsHome_sealb.jpg

369 ms

bgh_logo.jpg

bgh_logo.jpg

379 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

381 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

444 ms

buttonmiddle.gif

buttonmiddle.gif

344 ms

topmiddle.gif

topmiddle.gif

360 ms

bottomleft.gif

bottomleft.gif

373 ms

bottommiddle.gif

bottommiddle.gif

375 ms

bottomright.gif

bottomright.gif

431 ms

Accessibility Review

glcc.org.uk accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

glcc.org.uk 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

glcc.org.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

glcc.org.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Glcc. 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: