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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

zeit.de

ZEIT ONLINE | Nachrichten, News, Hintergründe und Debatten

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

6.7 sec

zeit.de screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing ZEIT content for Germany. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about zeit.de

Aktuelle Nachrichten, Kommentare, Analysen und Hintergrundberichte aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Wissen, Kultur und Sport lesen Sie auf ZEIT ONLINE.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zeit.de page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zeit.de performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,560 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zeit.de

222 ms

index

268 ms

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440 ms

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449 ms

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448 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Zeit.de, 46% (25 requests) were made to Static.zeit.de and 19% (10 requests) were made to Interactive.zeit.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Data-af9f3dfb33.zeit.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Zeit.de main page is 2.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 968.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 228.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 127.1 kB, which is 11% 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 968.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 258.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, ZEIT needs image optimization as it can save up to 258.2 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 71.1 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 69.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 158 B

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 20.5 kB

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. Zeit.de has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (74%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ZEIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

zeit.de

zeit.de

222 ms

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268 ms

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440 ms

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449 ms

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448 ms

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500 ms

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Accessibility Review

zeit.de accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

zeit.de 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

zeit.de SEO score

99

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 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 Zeit.de 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 Zeit.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

zeit.de

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of ZEIT. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: