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heute.ch

news.heute.ch | 27.07. 04:25 Uhr

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

Welcome to heute.ch homepage info - get ready to check Heute best content for Switzerland right away, or after learning these important things about heute.ch

heute.ch ist eine Domain der Hauri GmbH Internet Services aus Aarau.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heute.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 315 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

heute.ch performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

heute.ch

315 ms

style.css

302 ms

api.php

1355 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

hits.gif

397 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Heute.ch, 27% (8 requests) were made to Hits.ch and 20% (6 requests) were made to E-shop.ch. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source E-shop.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

155.3 kB

After Optimization

135.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Heute.ch main page is 155.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 104.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. 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 6.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 99.6 kB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 184 B

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 29 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

heute.ch SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Heute.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Heute.ch 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: