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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

puzzlesyndicate.com

The Puzzle Syndicate - Newspaper Crossword & Sudoku Puzzles

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

161 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 221 ms and then it took 2.3 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

puzzlesyndicate.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.puzzlesyndicate.com

221 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

23 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

styles.css

240 ms

style.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Puzzlesyndicate.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) belongs to the original domain Puzzlesyndicate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Puzzlesyndicate.com main page is 2.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. 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 21.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 206.9 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 15.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 55.5 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 15.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Puzzle Syndicate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.puzzlesyndicate.com

www.puzzlesyndicate.com

221 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

23 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

45 ms

styles.css

styles.css

240 ms

style.css

style.css

70 ms

dark.css

dark.css

53 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

59 ms

css

css

33 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

84 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

72 ms

spacious-custom.js

spacious-custom.js

81 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

299 ms

jquery.cycle2.swipe.min.js

jquery.cycle2.swipe.min.js

88 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

98 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

102 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

102 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

106 ms

xwordbg3.gif

xwordbg3.gif

43 ms

logo4.png

logo4.png

44 ms

slider4.jpg

slider4.jpg

94 ms

slider1.jpg

slider1.jpg

368 ms

slider3.jpg

slider3.jpg

123 ms

xword2.jpg

xword2.jpg

87 ms

sudoku.jpg

sudoku.jpg

76 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

26 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

    EN

  • 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 it matches the claimed language. 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 data is detected on the main page of Puzzle Syndicate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: