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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

crosswordanswers.co.uk

The Guardian Crossword Today Answers - The Guardian Daily Crosswords

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crosswordanswers.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crosswordanswers.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crosswordanswers.co.uk

1292 ms

adsbygoogle.js

68 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

219 ms

style.min.css

225 ms

blocks.style.build.css

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Crosswordanswers.co.uk, 12% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Crosswordanswers.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

256.8 kB

After Optimization

168.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crosswordanswers.co.uk main page is 256.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 106.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 26.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 94.5 kB
  • After minification 35.2 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, Crossword Answers needs image optimization as it can save up to 59.3 kB or 63% 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 297 B

  • Original 106.0 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. Crosswordanswers.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (64%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crossword Answers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

crosswordanswers.co.uk accessibility score

69

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

crosswordanswers.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

crosswordanswers.co.uk SEO score

94

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

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 Crosswordanswers.co.uk 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 Crosswordanswers.co.uk 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 Crossword Answers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: