Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

euractiv.ro

EurActiv | Știri, politici europene & Actori UE online

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

444 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

751 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Euractiv.ro page load time and found that the first response time was 444 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

euractiv.ro performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,980 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

euractiv.ro

444 ms

www.euractiv.ro

594 ms

bootstrap.css

22 ms

css

49 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Euractiv.ro, 11% (14 requests) were made to Assets.euractiv.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Euractiv.ro.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (42%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Euractiv.ro main page is 2.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 140.4 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 109.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Eur Activ images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 471.9 kB

  • Original 734.4 kB
  • After minification 723.3 kB
  • After compression 262.5 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 471.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 540.3 kB

  • Original 609.7 kB
  • After minification 515.8 kB
  • After compression 69.4 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. Euractiv.ro needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 540.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (46%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eur Activ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

euractiv.ro accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

euractiv.ro 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

euractiv.ro SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    RO

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Euractiv.ro can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Romanian 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 Euractiv.ro 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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Eur Activ. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: