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tsg-hoffenheim.de website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202639 issues · 82 checks
This review found 39 issues worth fixing on tsg-hoffenheim.de, 11 of them high impact, across 82 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
79CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 140 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 128 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 112 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 115 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
4.5 s · 1.7 MB77 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.7 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.8 s · 375 KiBAbout 375 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 65
65/100Your mobile performance score is 65. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
576 KiB8 images could be 576 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 113 KiBAbout 113 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
5 third-party services on the page
5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, eye-able.com and Usercentrics CMP and others), adding 1.5 MB and 211 ms of main-thread time.
Minify JavaScript
300 ms · 58 KiB58 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1,554 HTML elements
The page has 1,554 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Instagram adds 0 ms
0 msInstagram costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 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.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 81 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 460 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.6 s
9.6 sYour largest element takes 9.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 13.4 s
13.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 13.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.2 s
9.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
40 images without width and height
40 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors
+11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 88 ms
88 msReal visitors wait 88 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.07
0.07For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.07 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.7 s
0.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 333 ms
333 msReal visitors wait 333 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 14% faster for real visitors
-14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 140 ms to 115 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.073
0.073The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.073, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 35 ms
35 msScripts block the page for only 35 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.5 MB in 110 requests
3.5 MBYour homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 110 requests on a phone: images 2.2 MB (56), scripts 717 KiB (16) and fonts 375 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
10 images in older formats
10 images (1.7 MB) are 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.
6 images below the first screen load straight away
6 images further down the page (1.3 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
4 images far larger than shown
479 KiB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 871123017_18643943533004611_3239305590945506547_n.jpg at 1,088 px wide, shown at 290 px. Resized copies would save about 479 KiB.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.99 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.99 g of CO₂e: 119.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
12 text elements with low contrast
12 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
3 links without text
3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h3 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 88 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
41 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (21 characters)
Your title is only 21 characters: “Home » TSG Hoffenheim”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
9 links crawlers can't follow
9 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
53 internal links, 23 external
The homepage links to 53 pages on tsg-hoffenheim.de and 23 external pages.
1 checks passed
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/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.
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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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (144 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
4 pages share 2 titles
/ and https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/en all use the title “Home » TSG Hoffenheim”, and 1 other title repeat too. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
2 pages without a meta description
https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tsg-radio and https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/en have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tickets and https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tickets/ticketcenter use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
4 pages without an H1
https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tsg-radio, https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tickets, https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/en and https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/tickets/ticketcenter have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://www.tsg-hoffenheim.de/en 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 38 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
6 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 6 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “AbortError: The play() request was interrupted because the media was removed from the document. https://goo.gl/LdLk22”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
8 of 8 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 32 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 234 words
The homepage has only about 234 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
3 checks passed
1 call to action
The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Shop”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
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). A consent tool (Usercentrics) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
8 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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Consent tool: Usercentrics
A consent management tool (Usercentrics) loads with the page.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at tsg-hoffenheim.de, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Hosting
- Cdnext
Company
- Founded
- 1899
- Headquarters
- Sinsheim
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