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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

daad.org

Home - DAAD Office New York

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

daad.org screenshot

About Website

Visit daad.org now to see the best up-to-date DAAD content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about daad.org

The DAAD homepage is your gateway to information about study, research and internships in Germany.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daad.org page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

daad.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.516

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

231 ms

styles.css

221 ms

cookie-consent.css

325 ms

style.css

335 ms

app.css

544 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Daad.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Daad.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Daad.org main page is 4.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 164.7 kB

  • Original 181.5 kB
  • After minification 115.2 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 66.3 kB, which is 37% 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 164.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 177.1 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. DAAD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (26%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DAAD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

231 ms

styles.css

styles.css

221 ms

cookie-consent.css

cookie-consent.css

325 ms

style.css

style.css

335 ms

app.css

app.css

544 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

435 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

334 ms

index.js

index.js

232 ms

index.js

index.js

334 ms

cookie-consent.js

cookie-consent.js

663 ms

yett.js

yett.js

346 ms

de.js

de.js

347 ms

en.js

en.js

663 ms

cookieConsent.js

cookieConsent.js

664 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

705 ms

app.js

app.js

986 ms

script.js

script.js

706 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

219 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

214 ms

DAAD_Logo_Supplement_USA_DEEN_RGB.svg

DAAD_Logo_Supplement_USA_DEEN_RGB.svg

228 ms

DAAD_Logo_Mobile_USA_DEEN_RGB.svg

DAAD_Logo_Mobile_USA_DEEN_RGB.svg

232 ms

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226 ms

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231 ms

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758 ms

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881 ms

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14 ms

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Accessibility Review

daad.org accessibility score

82

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

daad.org 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

daad.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Daad.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Daad.org 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

daad.org

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