Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

icechat.net

IceChat IRC Client :: IRC Client Extra-Ordinaire :: The Chat Cool People Use

Page Load Speed

834 ms in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

581 ms

Page Rendered

164 ms

icechat.net screenshot

About Website

Welcome to icechat.net homepage info - get ready to check Ice Chat best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about icechat.net

IceChat is a fully featured, simple to use IRC Client allowing you to chat online with your friends and for meeting new people as well.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icechat.net page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 745 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

icechat.net performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

89 ms

bootstrap.min.css

7 ms

font-awesome.min.css

16 ms

sidebar.css

44 ms

lightbox.min.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Icechat.net, 31% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) belongs to the original domain Icechat.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.8 kB (53%)

Content Size

337.0 kB

After Optimization

159.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Icechat.net main page is 337.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 154.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 3.2 kB, which is 22% 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 10.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 119.0 kB
  • After minification 114.7 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. Ice Chat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 36.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 126.7 kB

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 152.9 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Icechat.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (64%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ice Chat. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

icechat.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

icechat.net best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

icechat.net SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Icechat.net 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 Icechat.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Ice Chat. 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: