thecircle.de website review

27 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.

A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 3,833 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

51 images could be 3.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 382 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 730 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 52. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (consentmanager.net, Shopify and WebInsight and others), adding 909 KiB and 588 ms of main-thread time.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 394 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

consentmanager.net costs a phone 323 ms of main-thread work and 159 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.

Shopify costs a phone 134 ms of main-thread work and 469 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.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (228 KiB).

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 6 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

Your largest element takes 13.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “ABBA”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 446 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

5 images 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 2.0 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 7.4 MB in 323 requests on a phone: images 5.3 MB (90), other files 928 KiB (116) and scripts 925 KiB (84). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example country.jpg at 1,000 px wide, shown at 161 px. Resized copies would save about 296 KiB.

6 images further down the page (571 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image (127 KiB) 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.10 g of CO₂e: 251.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Links must have discernible text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

11 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 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: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

Your title is 69 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “The Circle - Dein Zuhause für Musik: Platten & Popkultur | The Circle”.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Dein Zuhause für Musik: Platten & Popkultur | The…” and “Dein Zuhause für Musik: Platten & Popkultur | The…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 316 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 334 pages on thecircle.de and 7 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

https://thecircle.de/collections/music, https://thecircle.de/collections/exclusive and https://thecircle.de/collections/pop-vinyl-days-mix-match use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://thecircle.de/collections/rock-metal and https://thecircle.de/collections/klassische-musik took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 164 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

66 of 153 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 “Cornercart Failed to fetch from abt.usecorner.io: AbortError: signal is aborted without reason”.

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

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

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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 1,792 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (consentmanager) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 13 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 19 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.