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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202639 issues · 101 checks

This review found 39 issues worth fixing on hsv.de, 12 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. 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
2.1 s1.0 sMay 16Oct 311.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.9 s
May 23, 20261.9 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.9 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.6 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.2 s
Sep 12, 20261.1 s
Sep 19, 20261.2 s
Sep 26, 20261.3 s
Oct 3, 20261.3 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.3 s
Oct 24, 20261.3 s
Oct 31, 20261.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
156 ms97 msMay 16Oct 31139 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026113 ms
May 23, 2026111 ms
May 30, 2026109 ms
Jun 6, 2026108 ms
Jun 13, 2026105 ms
Jun 20, 2026110 ms
Jun 27, 2026112 ms
Jul 4, 2026137 ms
Jul 11, 2026145 ms
Jul 18, 2026147 ms
Jul 25, 2026149 ms
Aug 1, 2026140 ms
Aug 8, 2026148 ms
Aug 15, 2026139 ms
Aug 22, 2026129 ms
Aug 29, 2026116 ms
Sep 5, 2026104 ms
Sep 12, 2026110 ms
Sep 19, 2026126 ms
Sep 26, 2026143 ms
Oct 3, 2026148 ms
Oct 10, 2026145 ms
Oct 17, 2026139 ms
Oct 24, 2026137 ms
Oct 31, 2026139 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

10 to fix56
  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    4.2 s

    The page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 4.2 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.9 s · 1.1 MB

    About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 5.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    1.8 MB

    22 images could be 1.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and consentmanager.net and others), adding 4.0 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 56

    56/100

    Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • YouTube adds 537 ms

    537 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 537 ms of main-thread work and 981 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 421 ms

    421 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 421 ms of main-thread work and 424 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.

  • Font display

    300 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 300 ms).

  • storyblok.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    storyblok.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 2.0 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

    204 KiB

    About 204 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 15 long tasks on the main thread

    15 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 196 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    167 KiB

    19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (167 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    50 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 50 ms.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    14 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 14 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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: 17 ms

    17 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 17 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix33
  • 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.

  • Time to Interactive: 27.5 s

    27.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 27.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.4 s

    9.4 s

    Your largest element takes 9.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “img.object-cover”.

  • Speed Index: 9.1 s

    9.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user INP: 227 ms

    227 ms

    Real visitors wait 227 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.11

    0.11

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.11 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 23% slower for real visitors

    +23%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 113 ms to 139 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 402 ms

    402 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 402 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 198 ms

    198 ms

    Real visitors wait 198 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 31% faster for real visitors

    -31%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • 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 fix70
  • Page weight: 5.2 MB in 142 requests

    5.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.2 MB in 142 requests on a phone: images 2.3 MB (54), scripts 2.2 MB (48) and fonts 259 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.46 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.46 g of CO₂e: 175.4 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

4 to fixGoogle 8395
  • 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.

  • 24 tap targets too small

    24 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • Links look like plain text

    1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  • 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 31 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 38 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 1 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 8571
  • No H1 headline

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

  • Title is short (3 characters)

    Your title is only 3 characters: “HSV”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • Meta description is short (52 characters)

    Your meta description is only 52 characters: “Hamburger SV – News, Spielplan, Ergebnisse und mehr.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 14 internal links, 41 external

    The homepage links to 14 pages on hsv.de and 41 external pages.

3 checks passed
  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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.hsv.de/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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.

  • 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.

1 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.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 9 pages without a meta description

    /news/app, /partner/partner-des-hsv/partner-des-hsv, /karriere, /kontakt, /impressum and /datenschutz and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 5 pages without an H1

    /kontakt, /impressum, /datenschutz, /agb and /barrierefreiheit have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /partner/partner-des-hsv/partner-des-hsv 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.

  • 10 internal pages checked

    We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 10 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 88100
  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

  • 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

    32 of 33 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (66 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for hsv.de and is valid for another 66 days.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 32 links work

    All 32 links checked from your homepage (12 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

1 checks passed
  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only sectigo.com, globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org and pki.goog to issue certificates for hsv.de, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

Content and conversion

5 to fix33
  • 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.

  • Only about 22 words

    The homepage has only about 22 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be hsv.de is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • 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 a mx a:mx4.eventim.de mx:indivsurvey.de ip4:62.206.11.80/28 ip4:91.199.175.53 ip4:80.120.171.62 ip4:82.98.84.137…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), 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.

  • 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.

  • 3 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 3 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
Vercel

Company

Founded
1887
Headquarters
Hamburg

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