Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

metro.de

Lebensmittel- und Non-Food-Großhandel für Profis der Gastronomie|METRO

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metro.de page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 6.1 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

metro.de performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.metro.de

2649 ms

style-blessed1.css

195 ms

style.css

293 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

369 ms

picturefill.min.js

376 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Metro.de, 2% (1 request) were made to Googleadservices.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Metro.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 844.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Metro.de main page is 2.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 271.1 kB

  • Original 316.4 kB
  • After minification 255.0 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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 61.4 kB, which is 19% 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 271.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. METRO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 306.2 kB

  • Original 445.5 kB
  • After minification 444.7 kB
  • After compression 139.3 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 306.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 226.7 kB

  • Original 281.8 kB
  • After minification 281.7 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Metro.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 226.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of METRO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metro.de accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

metro.de best practices score

67

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

High

Uses deprecated APIs

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

metro.de SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Metro.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German 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 Metro.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 description is not detected on the main page of METRO. 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: