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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

baltictimes.com

News from Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania - The Baltic Times

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

586 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Baltic Times content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about baltictimes.com

Latest news from Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania. Independent weekly newspaper that covers latest political, business and cultural events in the Baltics

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baltictimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baltictimes.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,160 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.385

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.baltictimes.com

159 ms

bootstrap.min.css

18 ms

style.css

28 ms

font-awesome.css

32 ms

flexslider.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Baltictimes.com, 28% (25 requests) were made to Media.baltictimes.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Media.baltictimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 436.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Baltictimes.com main page is 7.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 75.5 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 60.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 367.7 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Baltic Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 236.2 kB
  • After minification 236.2 kB
  • After compression 232.0 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 99.3 kB
  • After compression 94.9 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. Baltictimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (42%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baltic Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.baltictimes.com

www.baltictimes.com

159 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

18 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

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font-awesome.css

32 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

27 ms

page_search.css

page_search.css

27 ms

page_magazine.css

page_magazine.css

27 ms

page_pricing.css

page_pricing.css

37 ms

blue.css

blue.css

43 ms

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94 ms

custom.css

custom.css

87 ms

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129 ms

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67 ms

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34 ms

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50 ms

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33 ms

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42 ms

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73 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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54 ms

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65 ms

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68 ms

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69 ms

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83 ms

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39 ms

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57 ms

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112 ms

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129 ms

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105 ms

logo_mobile.png

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209 ms

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127 ms

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126 ms

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104 ms

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75 ms

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43 ms

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38 ms

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www-player.css

www-player.css

133 ms

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base.js

base.js

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collect

748 ms

ad_status.js

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476 ms

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Accessibility Review

baltictimes.com accessibility score

76

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

baltictimes.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

baltictimes.com SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Baltictimes.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 Baltictimes.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

baltictimes.com

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