Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

rtu.lv

Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte | Inženierzinātņu centrs Baltijā

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

rtu.lv screenshot

About Website

Welcome to rtu.lv homepage info - get ready to check Rtu best content for Latvia right away, or after learning these important things about rtu.lv

Rīgas Tehniskās universitātes mājaslapa. Studijas, Zinātne, Valorizācija, Internacionalizācija, Universitāte, Fakultātes, Bibliotēka, Ziņas, Notikumi, Kontakti

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rtu.lv page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rtu.lv performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rtu.lv

332 ms

en

1387 ms

tcal_en_dots.js

230 ms

js_config

672 ms

parsed_css_2283d5a0437231a6e0efc87799d05eb1.css

446 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Rtu.lv, 4% (4 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Rtu.lv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

961.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Rtu.lv main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 786.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 98.6 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 110.8 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 98.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 786.1 kB
  • After minification 761.5 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. Rtu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 141.6 kB
  • After minification 141.4 kB
  • After compression 137.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Rtu.lv has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (21%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rtu. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rtu.lv accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rtu.lv best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rtu.lv SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rtu.lv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latvian/Lettish is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Rtu.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 data is detected on the main page of Rtu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: