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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

merkur.net

Willkommen auf dem Portal des Münchner Zeitungsverlages

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

427 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

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About Website

Welcome to merkur.net homepage info - get ready to check Merkur best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about merkur.net

Hier finden Sie eine Liste unserer Portale. Vom Münchner Merkur und der tz, Anzeigenmarkt üer ePaper - der elektronischen Zeitung bis zur Party Community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merkur.net page load time and found that the first response time was 427 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

merkur.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merkur.net

427 ms

spacer.gif

214 ms

mmlogo.png

214 ms

pfeil.gif

214 ms

tz-logo.jpg

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Merkur.net, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Merkur.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.1 kB (20%)

Content Size

114.6 kB

After Optimization

91.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Merkur.net main page is 114.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 71.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 21.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 70.6 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. Merkur images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merkur. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

merkur.net

merkur.net

427 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

214 ms

mmlogo.png

mmlogo.png

214 ms

pfeil.gif

pfeil.gif

214 ms

tz-logo.jpg

tz-logo.jpg

215 ms

oktoberfest-live.jpg

oktoberfest-live.jpg

215 ms

pg_logo.jpg

pg_logo.jpg

314 ms

epaper.jpg

epaper.jpg

425 ms

merkurtz-klein.jpg

merkurtz-klein.jpg

425 ms

fvologo.jpg

fvologo.jpg

427 ms

merkurcup.jpg

merkurcup.jpg

427 ms

tierfreundelogo.jpg

tierfreundelogo.jpg

427 ms

heimatshop_logo.jpg

heimatshop_logo.jpg

526 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

mollogo.gif

mollogo.gif

534 ms

mrs_logo.jpg

mrs_logo.jpg

535 ms

hallo.gif

hallo.gif

534 ms

hallologo.jpg

hallologo.jpg

639 ms

flohmarkt.gif

flohmarkt.gif

535 ms

kreisbote.gif

kreisbote.gif

634 ms

die5starken.gif

die5starken.gif

745 ms

trauer.gif

trauer.gif

746 ms

bsz.jpg

bsz.jpg

747 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

merkur.net accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

merkur.net best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

merkur.net SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • 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 Merkur.net 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 Merkur.net 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

merkur.net

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