Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

br.de

Bayerischer Rundfunk: Nachrichten von BR24, Highlights aus der BR Mediathek, Live Radio hören und BR.de-Specials - die Startseite für Bayern | BR.de

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

301 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

br.de screenshot

About Website

Visit br.de now to see the best up-to-date BR content for Germany and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about br.de

Der Bayerische Rundfunk bietet Fernseh- und Radioprogramm und regionale Informationen aus ganz Bayern und den Regionen Schwaben, Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz, Oberfranken, Unterfranken und Mitt...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Br.de page load time and found that the first response time was 301 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

br.de performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

br.de

301 ms

www.br.de

400 ms

index.html

698 ms

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71 ms

index~styles_bundle-2_ie-bm9uZQ%3D%3D_media-c2NyZWVuLCBwcm9qZWN0aW9u_-9f370ead45a168366af0c447d3417e0e29f1fec3.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Br.de, 2% (2 requests) were made to De.sitestat.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to De.ioam.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (698 ms) belongs to the original domain Br.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

358.3 kB

After Optimization

222.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Br.de main page is 358.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 229.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 89.5 kB

  • Original 109.4 kB
  • After minification 106.8 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 89.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 229.8 kB
  • After minification 190.4 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, BR needs image optimization as it can save up to 39.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 7.2 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (15%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BR. 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

br.de accessibility score

93

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

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

br.de best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

br.de SEO score

92

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

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 Br.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 Br.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 BR. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: