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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202626 issues · 90 checks

This review found 26 issues worth fixing on apollo.de, 11 of them high impact, across 90 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.5 s2.0 sMay 9Oct 242.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.2 s
May 16, 20262.2 s
May 23, 20262.3 s
May 30, 20262.4 s
Jun 6, 20262.4 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.3 s
Jul 4, 20262.3 s
Jul 11, 20262.3 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.3 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.4 s
Aug 15, 20262.4 s
Aug 22, 20262.4 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.3 s
Sep 12, 20262.3 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.2 s
Oct 10, 20262.2 s
Oct 17, 20262.1 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
188 ms177 msMay 9Oct 24178 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026182 ms
May 16, 2026181 ms
May 23, 2026181 ms
May 30, 2026181 ms
Jun 6, 2026184 ms
Jun 13, 2026186 ms
Jun 20, 2026186 ms
Jun 27, 2026187 ms
Jul 4, 2026186 ms
Jul 11, 2026184 ms
Jul 18, 2026182 ms
Jul 25, 2026179 ms
Aug 1, 2026179 ms
Aug 8, 2026180 ms
Aug 15, 2026178 ms
Aug 22, 2026180 ms
Aug 29, 2026180 ms
Sep 5, 2026182 ms
Sep 12, 2026186 ms
Sep 19, 2026185 ms
Sep 26, 2026184 ms
Oct 3, 2026180 ms
Oct 10, 2026179 ms
Oct 17, 2026179 ms
Oct 24, 2026178 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of apollo.de (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. apollo.de at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. apollo.de at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. apollo.de at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. apollo.de at 1.7 s1.7 s
  5. apollo.de at 2.1 s2.1 s
  6. apollo.de at 2.5 s2.5 s
  7. apollo.de at 3.0 s3.0 s
  8. apollo.de at 3.4 s3.4 s

apollo.de does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

6 to fix54
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.0 s · 822 KiB

    About 822 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 48). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (grandvision.io, trbo.com and Optanon and others), adding 1.7 MB and 813 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    850 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    350 ms · 384 KiB

    10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (384 KiB).

  • grandvision.io adds 523 ms

    523 ms

    grandvision.io costs a phone 523 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 120 KiB

    About 120 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 32 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 32 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 8 long tasks on the main thread

    8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 175 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    17 KiB

    1 image could be 17 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 2.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 14 ms

    14 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 14 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix67
  • 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 12.8 s

    12.8 s

    Your largest element takes 12.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 14.9 s

    14.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 14.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.7 s

    6.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 858 ms

    858 ms

    Real visitors wait 858 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 391 ms

    391 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 391 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 3 images without width and height

    3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 182 ms to 178 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.2 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 149 ms

    149 ms

    Real visitors wait 149 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.07

    0.07

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.07 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 80 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 80 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (47), images 143 KiB (9) and fonts 137 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (49 KiB) is 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.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (49 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.61 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.61 g of CO₂e: 73.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 8794
  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 18 links without text

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

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  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 92100
  • 242 internal links, 9 external

    The homepage links to 242 pages on apollo.de and 9 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 156 characters

    Your meta description is 156 characters: “Brillen, Kontaktlinsen, Sonnenbrillen, AI Glasses und Hörakustik bei Apollo – online und in über 900 Filialen, mit klar…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Apollo – dein Experte für Optik und Akustik”.

  • Title: 65 characters

    Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “Dein Optiker & Akustiker – Brillen, Kontaktlinsen & mehr | Apollo”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.apollo.de/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: OnlineStore, WebPage and WebSite.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

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

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.apollo.de/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • 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 (1,041 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 161 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • 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

Google 100100
  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    167 of 203 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • No Permissions-Policy

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

9 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (47 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for apollo.de and is valid for another 47 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 48 links work

    All 48 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 8 external) answered without errors.

  • security.txt published

    A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.

Domain and trust

1 checks passed
  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only comodoca.com, ssl.com, amazon.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for apollo.de, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

Content and conversion

4 to fix42
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • No calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • 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 960 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 960 words of visible text.

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  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

Email authentication

100
  • Email authentication score: 100/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject 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:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:spf-009ef501.pphosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.co…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
1972
Headquarters
Schwabach

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