Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

ak-kurier.de

Altenkirchener Kurier - AK-Kurier - Internetzeitung für den Kreis Altenkirchen

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

716 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ak-kurier.de page load time and found that the first response time was 716 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ak-kurier.de performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,560 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.186

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

overview.php

716 ms

akkurier.css

180 ms

style1.css

182 ms

style.css

268 ms

font-awesome.css

276 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (153 requests) were addressed to the original Ak-kurier.de, 7% (13 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ak-kurier.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 285.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Ak-kurier.de main page is 3.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 169.8 kB

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 158.0 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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 38.2 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 169.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. AK Kurier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 2.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Ak-kurier.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (19%)

Requests Now

178

After Optimization

144

The browser has sent 178 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AK Kurier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ak-kurier.de accessibility score

84

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ak-kurier.de best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ak-kurier.de SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ak-kurier.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Ak-kurier.de 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

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