Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

news.google.lv

Google News

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

790 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

news.google.lv screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing News Google content for Latvia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about news.google.lv

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.google.lv page load time and found that the first response time was 790 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.google.lv performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

790 ms

rs=AIkhDziHbYH17g10bUdOkF_B8XmafaK7fA

156 ms

css

37 ms

googlelogo_clr_74x24px.svg

24 ms

rs=AIkhDzhvcWuFXUfpzaLD1fkT2zaK8DngSQ

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original News.google.lv, 12% (9 requests) were made to Encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to Encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (790 ms) relates to the external source News.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 780.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

543.1 kB

In fact, the total size of News.google.lv main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 588.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 417.7 kB

  • Original 520.0 kB
  • After minification 520.0 kB
  • After compression 102.2 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 417.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 213.4 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. News Google images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 360.8 kB

  • Original 588.3 kB
  • After minification 587.8 kB
  • After compression 227.5 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 360.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (42%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Google. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.google.lv accessibility score

97

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

news.google.lv best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

news.google.lv SEO score

83

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    LV

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.google.lv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Latvian/Lettish language. Our system also found out that News.google.lv 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 description is not detected on the main page of News Google. 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: