Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mk.gov.lv

Sākumlapa | Ministru kabinets

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mk.gov.lv page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mk.gov.lv performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.222

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mk.gov.lv

1636 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

242 ms

css_qnhsj7tyUh562zOAZLQ3CajFnl4b1RvNqvYm93xjLtk.css

351 ms

css_EZ3hebIsWZfEN42aeAUlDsOAKBfdyawn3Jpn-mQRByM.css

243 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Mk.gov.lv, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Mk.gov.lv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 470.3 kB (52%)

Content Size

899.6 kB

After Optimization

429.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Mk.gov.lv main page is 899.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 403.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 37.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 403.1 kB
  • After minification 303.0 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. Obviously, Mk needs image optimization as it can save up to 100.1 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 244.2 kB

  • Original 338.1 kB
  • After minification 273.0 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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 244.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 88.0 kB

  • Original 109.4 kB
  • After minification 100.8 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Mk.gov.lv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (33%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mk.gov.lv accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mk.gov.lv best practices score

77

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mk.gov.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

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

    LV

  • Language Claimed

    LV

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mk.gov.lv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latvian/Lettish is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Mk.gov.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 Mk. 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: