Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

heute.at

Heute

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

617 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

heute.at screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heute.at page load time and found that the first response time was 617 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

heute.at performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,170 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.heute.at

617 ms

56aa03dfe45a1df57202f66e.js

218 ms

149_paths_2.css

350 ms

163_1_main_clean_2.css

447 ms

164_2_article_detail_2.css

351 ms

Our browser made a total of 295 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Heute.at, 19% (55 requests) were made to Static1.heute.at and 16% (47 requests) were made to Static2.heute.at. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Static1.heute.at.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (14%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Heute.at main page is 10.1 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. 85% 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 8.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 303.4 kB

  • Original 352.5 kB
  • After minification 314.8 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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 37.6 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 303.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 8.4 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Heute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 545.1 kB

  • Original 866.7 kB
  • After minification 723.8 kB
  • After compression 321.6 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 545.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 463.7 kB

  • Original 559.8 kB
  • After minification 452.1 kB
  • After compression 96.1 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. Heute.at needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 463.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 160 (57%)

Requests Now

282

After Optimization

122

The browser has sent 282 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 99 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heute.at accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

heute.at best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

heute.at SEO score

90

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Heute.at 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 Heute.at main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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