Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

hochschulstart.de

Bewerbung zum Studium in Deutschland: Hochschulstart

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

992 ms

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

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Hochschulstart koordiniert mit Hilfe des DoSV Bewerbungen für das erste Fachsemester und führt das ZV für Human-, Tier-, Zahnmedizin und Pharmazie durch.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hochschulstart.de page load time and found that the first response time was 303 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hochschulstart.de performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hochschulstart.de

303 ms

stylesheet_171c8481d8.css

98 ms

styles_w.css

196 ms

javascript_dd82474708.js

195 ms

piwik.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hochschulstart.de and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (387 ms) belongs to the original domain Hochschulstart.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

160.8 kB

After Optimization

126.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Hochschulstart.de main page is 160.8 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. Images take 122.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 662 B, 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 4.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 122.7 kB
  • After minification 120.3 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. Hochschulstart images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 25.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Hochschulstart.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hochschulstart. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

hochschulstart.de accessibility score

90

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

hochschulstart.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

hochschulstart.de SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Hochschulstart.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 Hochschulstart.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 Hochschulstart. 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: