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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

apalis.ch

Apalis – Redaktion & Verlag

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

692 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

apalis.ch screenshot

About Website

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Apalis ist die Reiseredaktion mit der grössten Reichweite in der Schweiz, unsere Publikationen erreichen insgesamt 1.4 Millionen Leser.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apalis.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 692 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apalis.ch performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.apalis.ch

692 ms

style.css

190 ms

prettyPhoto.css

194 ms

common.css

395 ms

index.css

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Apalis.ch, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (692 ms) belongs to the original domain Apalis.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 404.9 kB (52%)

Content Size

784.6 kB

After Optimization

379.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apalis.ch main page is 784.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 366.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 22.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 309.6 kB
  • After minification 259.1 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, Apalis needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 261.7 kB

  • Original 366.5 kB
  • After minification 315.3 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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 261.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 70.6 kB

  • Original 80.3 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Apalis.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (47%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apalis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.apalis.ch

www.apalis.ch

692 ms

style.css

style.css

190 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

194 ms

common.css

common.css

395 ms

index.css

index.css

196 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

399 ms

jquery.easing.1.2.js

jquery.easing.1.2.js

196 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

283 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

288 ms

Sansation_700.font.js

Sansation_700.font.js

383 ms

Sansation_400.font.js

Sansation_400.font.js

384 ms

Sansation_300.font.js

Sansation_300.font.js

474 ms

common.js

common.js

488 ms

index.js

index.js

575 ms

styles.css

styles.css

489 ms

comment-reply.js

comment-reply.js

484 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

604 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

569 ms

style.css

style.css

400 ms

ga.js

ga.js

32 ms

logo.png

logo.png

102 ms

down.gif

down.gif

99 ms

loading10.gif

loading10.gif

101 ms

loading6.gif

loading6.gif

108 ms

back.png

back.png

104 ms

pause.png

pause.png

103 ms

forward.png

forward.png

199 ms

gradient.jpg

gradient.jpg

196 ms

fotolia_342196.jpg

fotolia_342196.jpg

298 ms

linkArrowBlue.png

linkArrowBlue.png

198 ms

gradient.png

gradient.png

201 ms

upArrow.png

upArrow.png

203 ms

africa_760x300.jpg

africa_760x300.jpg

392 ms

africa_2_160x300.jpg

africa_2_160x300.jpg

485 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

6 ms

buch_760x300.jpg

buch_760x300.jpg

100 ms

Accessibility Review

apalis.ch accessibility score

87

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apalis.ch 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

apalis.ch SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apalis.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Apalis.ch 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

apalis.ch

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