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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

rt.com

RT - Breaking News, Russia News, World News and Video

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

807 ms

Page Rendered

57 ms

rt.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to rt.com homepage info - get ready to check RT best content for Russia right away, or after learning these important things about rt.com

RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 864 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rt.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rt.com

174 ms

rt.com

152 ms

index.css

37 ms

view.js

92 ms

index.js

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Rt.com, 25% (2 requests) were made to Check.ddos-guard.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) belongs to the original domain Rt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.3 kB (64%)

Content Size

193.1 kB

After Optimization

69.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rt.com main page is 193.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 189.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 403 B

  • Original 743 B
  • After minification 743 B
  • After compression 340 B

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 403 B or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 136 B
  • After minification 136 B

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. RT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 121.1 kB

  • Original 189.2 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 68.2 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 121.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Rt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RT. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

rt.com

rt.com

174 ms

rt.com

rt.com

152 ms

index.css

index.css

37 ms

view.js

view.js

92 ms

index.js

index.js

187 ms

check.js

check.js

151 ms

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268 ms

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268 ms

Accessibility Review

rt.com accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rt.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rt.com SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

rt.com

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