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chessgames.com

Chessgames.com: Chess Games Database & Community

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

751 ms

Page Rendered

386 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chessgames.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chessgames.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

chessgames.com

11 ms

chessgames.com

15 ms

www.chessgames.com

38 ms

js

214 ms

api.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Chessgames.com, 22% (12 requests) were made to Dic7nod2dy6gw.cloudfront.net and 9% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (373 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.6 kB (31%)

Content Size

722.1 kB

After Optimization

501.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chessgames.com main page is 722.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 404.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 185.9 kB

  • Original 224.7 kB
  • After minification 195.8 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 28.9 kB, which is 13% 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 185.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 35.5 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, Chessgames needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.2 kB or 48% 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 1.5 kB

  • Original 404.2 kB
  • After minification 404.2 kB
  • After compression 402.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Chessgames.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (54%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chessgames. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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chessgames.com

11 ms

chessgames.com

chessgames.com

15 ms

www.chessgames.com

www.chessgames.com

38 ms

js

js

214 ms

api.js

api.js

47 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

41 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

51 ms

aaw.chessgames.js

aaw.chessgames.js

211 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

32 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

137 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

265 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

234 ms

header_stripes.gif

header_stripes.gif

319 ms

chessgameslogo.png

chessgameslogo.png

156 ms

like.php

like.php

373 ms

follow_button.html

follow_button.html

365 ms

header_menu.gif

header_menu.gif

248 ms

highlight_stripes.gif

highlight_stripes.gif

245 ms

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gtm_tal.gif

247 ms

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spacer.gif

245 ms

board2.jpg

board2.jpg

251 ms

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252 ms

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analysislabbanner.png

252 ms

tournamentindexbanner.gif

tournamentindexbanner.gif

251 ms

goatbanner.gif

goatbanner.gif

322 ms

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flourish.gif

323 ms

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divider4.gif

336 ms

arrow_down.gif

arrow_down.gif

136 ms

highlight_stripes.gif

highlight_stripes.gif

242 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

242 ms

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242 ms

difficulty6.gif

difficulty6.gif

242 ms

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241 ms

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spacer.gif

241 ms

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quote_open.gif

334 ms

quote_closed.gif

quote_closed.gif

334 ms

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treated_like_a_king7.gif

254 ms

js

js

121 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

220 ms

anchor

anchor

103 ms

embeds

embeds

202 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

36 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

45 ms

w9py8-RGams.js

w9py8-RGams.js

83 ms

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80 ms

collect

collect

52 ms

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34 ms

webworker.js

webworker.js

97 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

20 ms

collect

collect

110 ms

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46 ms

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49 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

53 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

17 ms

SEO Factors

chessgames.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chessgames.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 Chessgames.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chessgames. 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: