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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

africanchesslounge.org

African Chess Lounge | Chess in Africa | 1 Memento Drive, Sonstraal Heights, Cape Town, South Africa

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

64 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanchesslounge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanchesslounge.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africanchesslounge.org

113 ms

minified.js

66 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

57 ms

polyfill.min.js

918 ms

mobile-app-invite-banner.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Africanchesslounge.org, 32% (20 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 30% (19 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (939 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (59%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanchesslounge.org main page is 3.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 375.9 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 1.9 MB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 812.9 kB
  • After minification 746.5 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. African Chess Lounge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 329.2 kB
  • After minification 329.2 kB
  • After compression 281.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 48.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Africanchesslounge.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (27%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Chess Lounge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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66 ms

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54 ms

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109 ms

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Accessibility Review

africanchesslounge.org accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africanchesslounge.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africanchesslounge.org SEO score

93

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

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 Africanchesslounge.org 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 Africanchesslounge.org 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

africanchesslounge.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of African Chess Lounge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: