Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

grossclub.com

The Grandmaster's Club | Best Chess Books, Chess Videos, Chess Documentary

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grossclub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grossclub.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,670 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.grossclub.com

1062 ms

css

17 ms

style.css

146 ms

jquery.js

400 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

274 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Grossclub.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Grossclub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.2 kB (57%)

Content Size

229.5 kB

After Optimization

99.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Grossclub.com main page is 229.5 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. Javascripts take 104.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 16.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 48.3 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. Obviously, Gross Club needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 67.6 kB

  • Original 104.6 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 67.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. Grossclub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gross Club. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

grossclub.com accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

grossclub.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

grossclub.com SEO score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Grossclub.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Grossclub.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 data is detected on the main page of Gross Club. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: