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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

rtlnow.de

RTL+

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

103 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rtlnow.de page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rtlnow.de performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rtl

250 ms

1b5272b9.tvnow.css

702 ms

bugsnag-2.min.js

10 ms

env.js

92 ms

c8b7c955.angular.js

1095 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Rtlnow.de, 14% (3 requests) were made to Tvnow.de and 9% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Rtl_prod-bud.gravityrd-services.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 710.5 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

584.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rtlnow.de main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 782.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 45.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 274.9 kB
  • After minification 244.8 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. Obviously, RTL Now needs image optimization as it can save up to 30.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 503.0 kB

  • Original 782.5 kB
  • After minification 782.5 kB
  • After compression 279.4 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 503.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 173.4 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Rtlnow.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 132.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (57%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RTL Now. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rtl

rtl

250 ms

1b5272b9.tvnow.css

1b5272b9.tvnow.css

702 ms

bugsnag-2.min.js

bugsnag-2.min.js

10 ms

env.js

env.js

92 ms

c8b7c955.angular.js

c8b7c955.angular.js

1095 ms

06f9ac0a.nonangular.js

06f9ac0a.nonangular.js

526 ms

93fb1c74.main.js

93fb1c74.main.js

1000 ms

css

css

56 ms

css

css

33 ms

gr_reco4-min.js

gr_reco4-min.js

1543 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

9 ms

iam.js

iam.js

1240 ms

adcontrol.min.js

adcontrol.min.js

1216 ms

1327 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

DE

DE

665 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

188 ms

blank.html

blank.html

178 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

4 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

6 ms

container.html

container.html

7 ms

background_tvnow.png

background_tvnow.png

473 ms

Accessibility Review

rtlnow.de accessibility score

96

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 progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

rtlnow.de 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

rtlnow.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

rtlnow.de

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