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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

gerards-it.de

Person Tom Gerards | IT-Entrepreneur und Unternehmer

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

481 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gerards-it.de page load time and found that the first response time was 481 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gerards-it.de performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gerards-it.de

481 ms

style.css

112 ms

bg_head.jpg

693 ms

gerards.jpg

207 ms

bg_body.jpg

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gerards-it.de and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (693 ms) belongs to the original domain Gerards-it.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

236.9 kB

After Optimization

229.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gerards-it.de main page is 236.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 226.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. 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 4.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 835 B

  • Original 226.8 kB
  • After minification 226.0 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. Gerards It images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 765 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. Gerards-it.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gerards It. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gerards-it.de

gerards-it.de

481 ms

style.css

style.css

112 ms

bg_head.jpg

bg_head.jpg

693 ms

gerards.jpg

gerards.jpg

207 ms

bg_body.jpg

bg_body.jpg

205 ms

Accessibility Review

gerards-it.de accessibility score

85

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.

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

Best Practices

gerards-it.de best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gerards-it.de SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gerards-it.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Gerards-it.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gerards It. 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: