Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ekd.de

Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – EKD

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

898 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ekd.de page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 5.5 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

ekd.de performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.918

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ekd.de

302 ms

ekd.de

387 ms

www.ekd.de

655 ms

app.min.css

300 ms

e.js

672 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Ekd.de, 3% (3 requests) were made to Stats.ekd.de and 1% (1 request) were made to Siteimproveanalytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Ekd.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ekd.de main page is 4.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 306.8 kB

  • Original 345.2 kB
  • After minification 238.5 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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 106.8 kB, which is 31% 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 306.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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. EKD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 441.2 kB

  • Original 638.6 kB
  • After minification 638.6 kB
  • After compression 197.4 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 441.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 338.0 kB

  • Original 389.7 kB
  • After minification 389.4 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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. Ekd.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 338.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (4%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EKD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ekd.de accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ekd.de 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ekd.de SEO score

98

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

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ekd.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ekd.de 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 EKD. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: