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About Website

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The Red Dot Award is an international design competition for product design, communication design and design concepts.

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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

red-dot.org

299 ms

en.red-dot.org

514 ms

stylesheet_745d95f432.css

185 ms

2014-style.css

268 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

447 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Red-dot.org, 85% (41 requests) were made to En.red-dot.org and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (651 ms) relates to the external source De.red-dot.org.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Red-dot.org main page is 2.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

Original 24.5 kB
After minification 22.8 kB
After compression 5.8 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 18.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 102.0 kB

Original 1.9 MB
After minification 1.8 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. Red Dot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

Original 159.7 kB
After minification 158.7 kB
After compression 56.1 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 103.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

Original 57.9 kB
After minification 40.6 kB
After compression 7.3 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. Red-dot.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Red Dot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

DE
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Red-dot.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed German language. Our system also found out that Red-dot.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

red-dot.org

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

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Key Findings

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Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)