nicks.de website review

9 images could be 8.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 40.5 s faster on a phone.

About 509 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.2 s faster on a phone.

19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (518 KiB).

22 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

Shopify costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 447 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 43. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 6.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 3,991 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, alia-prod.com and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.4 MB and 2.6 s of main-thread time.

alia-prod.com costs a phone 469 ms of main-thread work and 746 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 costs a phone 400 ms of main-thread work and 523 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 50 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

36 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 32 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 280 ms faster on a phone.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 168 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 66.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

Visually, the page fills in at 24.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 67.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 766 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 151 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Bars_on_a_line.gif weighs 14.7 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

Your homepage downloads 12.8 MB in 419 requests on a phone: images 9.4 MB (24), scripts 1.9 MB (109) and other files 1.1 MB (253). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (14.7 MB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

1 image further down the page (14.7 MB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.62 g of CO₂e: 433.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Some list items are not inside a list.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

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

Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

Your title is 82 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Snacks ohne Zuckerzusatz | Süßigkeiten, Schokoriegel und Proteinriegel – NICK'S EU”.

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“”, “neues Aussehen, besserer Geschmack” and “pack mich aus, Baby”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 233 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: sameAs is not an absolute URL ("#")”.

The homepage links to 100 pages on nicks.de and 7 external pages.

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

/customer_authentication/redirect and /products/buy-more-save-more are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/customer_authentication/redirect and /policies/shipping-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /collections/all/products/coconut, whose canonical is /products/coconut. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/customer_authentication/redirect and /collections/wafers took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 41 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

12 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://d19ayerf5ehaab.cloudfront.net/css/product-widget/style.css' from origin 'https://n…”.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://nicks.de/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=de&region_country=DE.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

nicks.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 699 words of visible text.

nicks.de has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

nicks.de has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

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: 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (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.

Opening the homepage sets 27 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 37 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.