Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

freechess.org

Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)

Page Load Speed

396 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

239 ms

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

Visit freechess.org now to see the best up-to-date Free Chess content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about freechess.org

FICS - Free Internet Chess Server is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet. FICS supports tournaments, lectures, live game relays, chess variants (Suicide, Bughouse, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freechess.org page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 323 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freechess.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freechess.org

73 ms

www.freechess.org

80 ms

fics.css

17 ms

FicsBanner.jpg

45 ms

clear.gif

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Freechess.org, 18% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (80 ms) belongs to the original domain Freechess.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

102.5 kB

After Optimization

82.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Freechess.org main page is 102.5 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 79.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 9.0 kB, which is 41% 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 19.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 488 B

  • Original 79.6 kB
  • After minification 79.1 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. Free Chess images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 186 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 943 B

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. Freechess.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Chess. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

freechess.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

Best Practices

freechess.org best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

freechess.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freechess.org 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 Freechess.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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