Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

rtlnow.de

RTL+

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

429 ms

Resources Loaded

764 ms

Page Rendered

53 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rtlnow.de page load time and found that the first response time was 429 ms and then it took 817 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rtlnow.de performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.819

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rtl-1

429 ms

styles.207b17671831e9fe.css

5 ms

RTLUnitedText-Regular.c9e2e4ea349bdb41.woff2

6 ms

RTLUnitedText-Light.593217ff86336818.woff2

12 ms

RTLUnitedText-Bold.1f7df3584255305d.woff2

10 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 Rtlnow.de and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (429 ms) relates to the external source Plus.rtl.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.4 kB (81%)

Content Size

48.7 kB

After Optimization

9.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rtlnow.de main page is 48.7 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. HTML takes 45.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. 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 39.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 133 B

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Rtlnow.de has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RTL Now. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

rtlnow.de accessibility score

92

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

rtlnow.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rtlnow.de SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rtlnow.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is German. Our system also found out that Rtlnow.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

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