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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202652 issues · 113 checks

This review found 52 issues worth fixing on freenet.de, 23 of them high impact, across 113 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
3.4 s2.6 sMay 9Oct 243.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.7 s
May 16, 20262.7 s
May 23, 20262.7 s
May 30, 20262.8 s
Jun 6, 20262.9 s
Jun 13, 20263.1 s
Jun 20, 20263.2 s
Jun 27, 20263.2 s
Jul 4, 20263.2 s
Jul 11, 20263.3 s
Jul 18, 20263.3 s
Jul 25, 20263.3 s
Aug 1, 20263.3 s
Aug 8, 20263.3 s
Aug 15, 20263.3 s
Aug 22, 20263.3 s
Aug 29, 20263.3 s
Sep 5, 20263.3 s
Sep 12, 20263.3 s
Sep 26, 20263.3 s
Oct 10, 20263.3 s
Oct 17, 20263.3 s
Oct 24, 20263.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
218 ms189 msMay 9Oct 24203 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026193 ms
May 16, 2026192 ms
May 23, 2026192 ms
May 30, 2026193 ms
Jun 6, 2026194 ms
Jun 13, 2026196 ms
Jun 20, 2026197 ms
Jun 27, 2026198 ms
Jul 4, 2026200 ms
Jul 11, 2026200 ms
Jul 18, 2026198 ms
Jul 25, 2026196 ms
Aug 1, 2026199 ms
Aug 8, 2026205 ms
Aug 15, 2026211 ms
Aug 22, 2026215 ms
Aug 29, 2026215 ms
Sep 5, 2026215 ms
Sep 12, 2026215 ms
Sep 26, 2026214 ms
Oct 10, 2026206 ms
Oct 17, 2026204 ms
Oct 24, 2026203 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

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Speed

11 to fix17
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    30.4 s · 5.8 MB

    35 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5.8 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    15.7 s

    14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 15.7 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    10.9 s · 2.0 MB

    About 2.0 MB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 10.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    9.2 s · 2.8 MB

    About 2.8 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 9.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 17

    17/100

    Your mobile performance score is 17 (desktop: 15). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 5,583 HTML elements

    The page has 5,583 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Minify JavaScript

    600 ms · 138 KiB

    138 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (md.de, privacy-mgmt.com and fraud0.com and others), adding 3.9 MB and 121 ms of main-thread time.

  • Main-thread work: 4.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Amazon Web Services adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    Amazon Web Services costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 3.2 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.

  • md.de adds 47 ms

    47 ms

    md.de costs a phone 47 ms of main-thread work and 375 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.

  • 19 long tasks on the main thread

    19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 226 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 63 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 63 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    148 KiB

    6 images could be 148 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Font display

    100 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

  • 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.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

13 to fix0
  • 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: 1.74

    1.74

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 1.74 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • First Contentful Paint: 28.5 s

    28.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 28.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 41.7 s

    41.7 s

    Your largest element takes 41.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Nur für kurze Zeit Samsung Galaxy S26 FE Jetzt mit Galaxy T…”.

  • Speed Index: 28.5 s

    28.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 28.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 64.3 s

    64.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 64.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.091

    1.091

    The layout shifts by 1.091 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    Real visitors wait 3.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 251 ms

    251 ms

    Real visitors wait 251 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 24% slower for real visitors

    +24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 3.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 521 ms

    521 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 521 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 6 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 193 ms to 203 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 checks passed
  • Real-user TTFB: 573 ms

    573 ms

    Real visitors wait 573 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix60
  • Page weight: 11.2 MB in 189 requests

    11.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 11.2 MB in 189 requests on a phone: scripts 4.6 MB (28), other files 3.4 MB (76) and stylesheets 2.0 MB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    81 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example ElektroG_.png at 4,096 px wide, shown at 100 px. Resized copies would save about 81 KiB.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (81 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 3.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.17 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.17 g of CO₂e: 379.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

Accessibility

11 to fixGoogle 8284
  • 7 buttons without a name

    7 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • Images must have alternative text (1 element)

    Images must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • Positive tabindex

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

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

    2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (19 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 19 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 (2 elements)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 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.

  • 3 links without text

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

  • 2 form fields without a label

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

  • Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" do not have accessible names.

    Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" do not have accessible names. (1 element).

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

1 checks passed
  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 9 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9290
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 135 internal links, 18 external

    The homepage links to 135 pages on freenet.de and 18 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Bei freenet findest Du Top-Tarife, Handys und Netze nach Deinen Bedürfnissen. Sichere Dir das passende Mobilfunk-Angebo…”.

  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “freenet | Tarife in allen Netzen und günstige Handy-Angebote”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: OnlineStore 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.freenet.de/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

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.

  • Organization data: 6 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (835 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

4 to fix50
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to /%7B%7Bshc.shopData.homepage%7D%7D, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 1 page without a title

    /suche has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /onlineservice/registrierung and /suche have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /onlineservice/registrierung and /services/vertrag/vertragsverlaengerung have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /handytarife/ohne-handy/telekom took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 104 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed
  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

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

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 14 small tap targets

    14 of 65 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “ERROR TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'componentsCollection')”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix81
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.freenet.de/%7B%7Bshc.shopData.homepage%7D%7D (404).

  • 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.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 2 links through redirect chains

    2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.freenet.de/bk-angebote/.

  • 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.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (53 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for freenet.de and is valid for another 53 days.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://freenet.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

1 checks passed
  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only telesec.de to issue certificates for freenet.de, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

Content and conversion

3 to fix75
  • 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.

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 5 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 629 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 629 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Shop suchen”, “Shop ändern” and “Mehr Informationen zum Shop”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Email authentication

2 to fix65
  • SPF does not block other senders (no all)

    Your SPF record doesn't end in -all or ~all, so it doesn't stop other servers sending as you: “v=spf1 redirect=_spf.freenet.de”.

  • 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: 65/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

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

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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 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
Angular
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
2009
Headquarters
Büdelsdorf

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