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dfb.de website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202640 issues · 104 checks
This review found 40 issues worth fixing on dfb.de, 20 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
73CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 119 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 116 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 107 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 104 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
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
6.3 s · 1.8 MB72 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.8 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.3 s · 1.3 MBAbout 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.3 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
2.4 s2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 25
25/100Your mobile performance score is 25 (desktop: 38). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 9.1 s
A phone's processor spends 9.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,775 HTML elements
The page has 3,775 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, Gigya and Facebook and others), adding 1.7 MB and 2.0 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
800 ms · 492 KiB29 images could be 492 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 800 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
780 ms · 89 KiBAbout 89 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 780 ms faster on a phone.
Google/Doubleclick Ads adds 589 ms
589 msGoogle/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 589 ms of main-thread work and 625 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.
Gigya adds 437 ms
437 msGigya costs a phone 437 ms of main-thread work and 223 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.
Facebook adds 300 ms
300 msFacebook costs a phone 300 ms of main-thread work and 225 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 316 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 70 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 70 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 13.9 s
13.9 sYour largest element takes 13.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 27.5 s
27.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 27.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 14.3 s
14.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 14.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.9 s
1.9 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.9 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s
3.5 sThe first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.148
0.148The layout shifts by 0.148 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 137 ms
137 msReal visitors wait 137 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 392 ms
392 msReal visitors wait 392 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 13% faster for real visitors
-13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 119 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.1 MB in 163 requests
4.1 MBYour homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 163 requests on a phone: scripts 2.3 MB (46), images 864 KiB (51) and other files 548 KiB (53). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.16 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.16 g of CO₂e: 139.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
4 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
2 buttons without a name
2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Hidden but focusable
6 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text (1 element)
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (7 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
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.
Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)
Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
7 links without text
7 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 107 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 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: 40 passed and 10 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
6 links with vague text
6 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
76 internal links, 41 external
The homepage links to 76 pages on dfb.de and 41 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 129 characters
Your meta description is 129 characters: “Hier findest du alle offiziellen Infos zum DFB und der Fußball-Nationalmannschaft ✔️ Tickets, News, Shop & mehr. Jetzt …”.
Title: 51 characters
Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “Deutscher Fußball-Bund: Offizielle Webseite des DFB”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.dfb.de/.
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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.dfb.de/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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 (3,224 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 72 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
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.zalando.de/ (503).
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.ea.com/de-de/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-24.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (dfb.de).
Valid certificate (180 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 verifies for dfb.de and is valid for another 180 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://dfb.de redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
security.txt published
A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
dfb.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
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 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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 3,279 words of copy
The homepage carries about 3,279 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 27 customer or partner logos and 80 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight and TikTok Pixel.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be dfb.de is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 75/100
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
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:_u.dfb.de._spf.dmarclyeu.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
5 cookies set on arrival
5Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
2 checks passed
Consent tool: Usercentrics
A consent management tool (Usercentrics) loads with the page.
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).
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