Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

daad.org

Home - DAAD Office New York

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

daad.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daad.org page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

daad.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

244 ms

shariff.complete.css

203 ms

magnific-popup.css

307 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

416 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

423 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Daad.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Daad.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Daad.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Daad.org main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 27.5 kB, which is 33% 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 70.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.4 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. DAAD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 215.3 kB

  • Original 319.8 kB
  • After minification 319.7 kB
  • After compression 104.4 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 215.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 876 B

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. Daad.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (62%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DAAD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

daad.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

daad.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

daad.org SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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