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free-ways.de website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202625 issues · 71 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on free-ways.de, 5 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: 8 text elements with low contrast. 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
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
750 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 43 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (43 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 43 KiBAbout 43 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.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 67 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Improve image delivery
32 KiB3 images could be 32 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, loox.io and ghostretail.com and others), adding 155 KiB and 2 ms of main-thread time.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.9 s
A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 35 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 38 ms
38 msYour server sent the HTML in 38 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.1 s
5.1 sYour largest element takes 5.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.2
0.2The layout shifts by 0.2 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Time to Interactive: 5.1 s
5.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 5.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
3 checks passed
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Speed Index: 1.6 s
1.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.6 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 17 ms
17 msScripts block the page for only 17 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.27 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.27 g of CO₂e: 33.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 992 KiB in 43 requests
992 KiBYour homepage downloads 992 KiB in 43 requests on a phone: images 524 KiB (14), scripts 320 KiB (20) and stylesheets 60 KiB (5). That is a lean page.
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
8 text elements with low contrast
8 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
8 tap targets too small
8 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (2 elements)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 26 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (8 characters)
Your title is only 8 characters: “Freeways”. 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 freeways.ch, not free-ways.de, so Google may credit that host instead.
Meta description is short (26 characters)
Your meta description is only 26 characters: “Atme besser. Werde besser.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://freeways.ch)”.
53 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 53 pages on free-ways.de and 1 external page.
4 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Freeways”.
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://free-ways.de/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing 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.
3 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 (1,161 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://free-ways.de/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages share a title
https://free-ways.de/products/mouth-tapes-1, https://free-ways.de/products/freeways-duo and https://free-ways.de/products/mundtapes-halloween-sale all use the title “Freeways, mouth tapes, mouth taping, Besserer Schlaf, Anti Schnarchen”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
7 pages without a meta description
https://free-ways.de/collections/frontpage, https://free-ways.de/collections/bundles, https://free-ways.de/products/freeways-im-abo, https://free-ways.de/pages/erklarung, https://free-ways.de/blogs/news and https://free-ways.de/collections/all and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://free-ways.de/products/freeways-duo and https://free-ways.de/products/mundtapes-halloween-sale use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
5 pages without an H1
https://free-ways.de/collections/frontpage, https://free-ways.de/collections/bundles, https://free-ways.de/pages/erklarung, https://free-ways.de/collections/all and https://free-ways.de/products/freeways-breahting-strips have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://free-ways.de/products/freeways-breahting-strips has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 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
10 small tap targets
10 of 23 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
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 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 428 words of copy
The homepage carries about 428 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Shop”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: a star rating and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo (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.
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 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.
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.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at free-ways.de, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Google Ads Pixel By Nabu · Retargeting For Google · Triplewhale · Kaching Bundles · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · loox.io · azureedge.net · wetracked.io
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 25 issues on free-ways.de, including 6 speed issues, 4 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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- Earned media and PR openings
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