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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202641 issues · 95 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on api.de, 13 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: font display. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

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Speed

6 to fix80
  • Font display

    3.0 s

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 3.0 s).

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.6 s

    49 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.

  • 3,172 HTML elements

    The page has 3,172 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 80

    80/100

    Your mobile performance score is 80 (desktop: 70). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 113 KiB

    About 113 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • skynettechnologies.com adds 11 ms

    11 ms

    skynettechnologies.com costs a phone 11 ms of main-thread work and 515 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 83 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 1 third-party service on the page

    1 third-party service load with your homepage (skynettechnologies.com), adding 515 KiB and 11 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    56 KiB

    About 56 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 199 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 147 ms

    147 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 147 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.40

    0.40

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.40 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Speed Index: 13.3 s

    13.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 13.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.2 s

    9.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Your largest element takes 3.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Bei uns sind Sie genau richtig, wenn Sie von 30 Jahren Erfa…”. Most of its time is element render delay (5.4 s).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user INP: 148 ms

    148 ms

    Real visitors wait 148 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user TTFB: 606 ms

    606 ms

    Real visitors wait 606 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 22 ms

    22 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 22 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix48
  • 1 image over 500 KB

    Icy_Box_color_logo.png weighs 749 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 5 images far larger than shown

    928 KiB

    5 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Icy_Box_color_logo.png at 19,357 px wide, shown at 140 px. Resized copies would save about 928 KiB.

  • 14 images below the first screen load straight away

    14 images further down the page (1.6 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (1.4 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.22 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.22 g of CO₂e: 26.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Page weight: 805 KiB in 297 requests

    805 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 805 KiB in 297 requests on a phone: scripts 237 KiB (64), fonts 232 KiB (10) and stylesheets 144 KiB (49). That is a lean page.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 9192
  • Positive tabindex

    5 elements have a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

  • autocomplete attribute must be used correctly (1 element)

    autocomplete attribute must be used correctly: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (10 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 4 form fields without a label

    4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Links look like plain text

    1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 170 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 9273
  • Title is short (15 characters)

    Your title is only 15 characters: “api GmbH - Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • Canonical points to another host

    Your canonical URL points to api2022.api.de, not api.de, so Google may credit that host instead.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (263 characters)

    Your meta description is 263 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://api.de/index.php/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • 65 internal links, 69 external

    The homepage links to 65 pages on api.de and 69 external pages.

2 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “api: Ihr IT-Distributor”.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (936 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix83
  • 2 pages share a title

    / and /en all use the title “api GmbH - Home”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /newsletteranmeldung and /mehrwerte/nachhaltig-it-1 have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 9 pages without an H1

    /unternehmen, /unternehmen/profil, /unternehmen/standort, /newsletteranmeldung, /mehrwerte/build-to-order and /mehrwerte/shop2go and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /financial-services took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 49 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9291
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)”.

  • 1 distorted image

    1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    31 of 31 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix67
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://api.de/3cx.old/index.html (404).

  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • 2 links through redirect chains

    2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://api.de/mehrwerte/financial-services.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

3 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (api.de).

  • Valid certificate (60 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for api.de and is valid for another 60 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://api.de redirects to the secure version.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    api.de has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

100
  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 736 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 736 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop”.

  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Build To Order” and “Shop”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (5 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 65 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Matomo.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 3 email links.

Email authentication

1 to fix80
  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 80/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

2 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.api.de include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.

Privacy and tracking

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 2 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2021.

Stack

CMS
TYPO3 CMS

Company

Founded
1994
Headquarters
Baesweiler

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