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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

puzzlesyndicate.com

The Puzzle Syndicate - Newspaper Crossword & Sudoku Puzzles

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

624 ms

Page Rendered

180 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Puzzle Syndicate content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about puzzlesyndicate.com

The Puzzle Syndicate offers syndicated newspaper crossword puzzles and sudoku puzzles for weekly, biweekly, and monthly publications across the country.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Puzzlesyndicate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 804 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

puzzlesyndicate.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

puzzlesyndicate.com

215 ms

stylesheet.css

117 ms

xwordgraphic2.jpg

270 ms

pslogo.gif

209 ms

frontpagexword.gif

453 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Puzzlesyndicate.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) belongs to the original domain Puzzlesyndicate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

28.6 kB

After Optimization

20.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Puzzlesyndicate.com main page is 28.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 900 B, which is 16% 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 3.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 455 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.5 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. Puzzle Syndicate images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Puzzlesyndicate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Puzzle Syndicate. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

puzzlesyndicate.com

puzzlesyndicate.com

215 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

117 ms

xwordgraphic2.jpg

xwordgraphic2.jpg

270 ms

pslogo.gif

pslogo.gif

209 ms

frontpagexword.gif

frontpagexword.gif

453 ms

frontpagesudoku.gif

frontpagesudoku.gif

332 ms

xwordbg3.gif

xwordbg3.gif

73 ms

Accessibility Review

puzzlesyndicate.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

puzzlesyndicate.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

puzzlesyndicate.com SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Puzzlesyndicate.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 Puzzlesyndicate.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

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