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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

zeit.de

ZEIT ONLINE | Nachrichten, News, Hintergründe und Debatten

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 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 185 ms and then it took 4.9 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

zeit.de performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zeit.de

185 ms

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512 ms

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Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Zeit.de, 44% (31 requests) were made to Img.zeit.de and 26% (18 requests) were made to Static.zeit.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (953 ms) relates to the external source Img.zeit.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

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

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Zeit.de main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 201.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 148.5 kB, which is 12% 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 1.1 MB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. ZEIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 133.6 kB
  • After compression 133.5 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 143 B

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 28 (43%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

zeit.de

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185 ms

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Accessibility Review

zeit.de accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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: