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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

theweekinchess.com

Home | The Week in Chess

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

267 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theweekinchess.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 1.4 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

theweekinchess.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theweekinchess.com

160 ms

theweekinchess.com

629 ms

style_front_inc_resets.css

67 ms

twitter.png

145 ms

facebook.png

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Theweekinchess.com, 14% (3 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (629 ms) belongs to the original domain Theweekinchess.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

504.0 kB

After Optimization

425.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theweekinchess.com main page is 504.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 445.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.7 kB, which is 12% 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 30.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 445.1 kB
  • After minification 397.5 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, The Week In Chess needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Theweekinchess.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Week In Chess. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

theweekinchess.com

theweekinchess.com

160 ms

theweekinchess.com

theweekinchess.com

629 ms

style_front_inc_resets.css

style_front_inc_resets.css

67 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

145 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

208 ms

rss.png

rss.png

209 ms

chessable_banner_generic_960x90.jpg

chessable_banner_generic_960x90.jpg

327 ms

TWICNewJobavaLondonpng.png

TWICNewJobavaLondonpng.png

75 ms

btn_subscribe_SM.gif

btn_subscribe_SM.gif

23 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

24 ms

9_geerke_sokolov_300.jpg

9_geerke_sokolov_300.jpg

262 ms

nic_powerofpawns_2.png

nic_powerofpawns_2.png

324 ms

chesscom_events_2.jpg

chesscom_events_2.jpg

206 ms

fritz-19-download-twic-300x200.jpg

fritz-19-download-twic-300x200.jpg

385 ms

modern_chess_april.png

modern_chess_april.png

387 ms

forward_jussupow_1.png

forward_jussupow_1.png

384 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

Api

Api

127 ms

x-click-butcc-donate.gif

x-click-butcc-donate.gif

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

Puzzle441726.png

Puzzle441726.png

11 ms

Accessibility Review

theweekinchess.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

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

theweekinchess.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

theweekinchess.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Theweekinchess.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 Theweekinchess.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

theweekinchess.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Week In Chess. 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: