Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

capital.de

Wirtschaft ist Gesellschaft - Capital.de

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

700 ms

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About Website

Welcome to capital.de homepage info - get ready to check Capital best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about capital.de

Das Online-Portal des Wirtschaftsmagazins Capital mit Reportagen, Analysen, Kommentaren aus der Welt der Wirtschaft und der persönlichen Finanzen.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capital.de page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 14 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

capital.de performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capital.de

298 ms

www.capital.de

1841 ms

main_new.css

458 ms

960_12_col_new.css

356 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (115 requests) were addressed to the original Capital.de, 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Ssp-rce.veeseo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.9 sec) relates to the external source Ssp-rce.veeseo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 825.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Capital.de main page is 3.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 133.1 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 115.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Capital images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 330.7 kB

  • Original 477.1 kB
  • After minification 468.2 kB
  • After compression 146.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 330.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 279.6 kB

  • Original 324.0 kB
  • After minification 254.1 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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. Capital.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 279.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (31%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

86

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

capital.de accessibility score

87

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

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

capital.de best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

capital.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

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Capital.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 Capital.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 Capital. 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: