Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

heute.at

Heute

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heute.at page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

heute.at performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,090 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heute.at

21 ms

www.heute.at

84 ms

65e02423682bb40f.css

27 ms

3f61723aa0789bd6.css

30 ms

e81996be-19bc511e7fdb439c.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Heute.at, 80% (129 requests) were made to Heute-at-prod-images.imgix.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Php.heute.at. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) relates to the external source Php.heute.at.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (6%)

Content Size

23.7 MB

After Optimization

22.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Heute.at main page is 23.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 22.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 238.7 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. 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 1.5 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 22.0 MB
  • After minification 22.0 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. Heute images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (16%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

134

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heute.at accessibility score

67

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

heute.at best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

heute.at 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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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