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freenet.de website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
57FClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 193 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 192 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 192 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 211 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 204 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 203 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
30.4 s · 5.8 MB35 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5.8 MB).
Render-blocking requests
15.7 s14 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 MBAbout 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 MBAbout 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
17/100Your 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 KiB138 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 msAmazon 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 msmd.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 KiBPolyfills 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 KiB6 images could be 148 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Font display
100 msWeb 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 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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
1.74For real visitors the layout shifts by 1.74 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
First Contentful Paint: 28.5 s
28.5 sThe 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 sYour 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 sVisually, the page fills in at 28.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 64.3 s
64.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 64.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.091
1.091The 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 sReal 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 msReal 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 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 521 ms
521 msScripts 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 msReal visitors wait 573 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 11.2 MB in 189 requests
11.2 MBYour 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 KiB1 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 gBy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 tracker load before any consent
1Before 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
10Opening 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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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