18bricks.ae website review

A phone's processor spends 4.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (11.6 MB).

6 images could be 3.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

1 third-party service load with your homepage (Amazon Web Services), adding 11.6 MB and 0 ms of main-thread time.

Amazon Web Services costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 11.6 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.

Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.

The page has 2,471 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 44 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 190 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 14 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 191 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 4.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “18Bricks Group of Companies”. Most of its time is element render delay (5.0 s).

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 288 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 13.1 MB in 52 requests on a phone: images 11.6 MB (8), other files 1.1 MB (16) and scripts 360 KiB (22). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.72 g of CO₂e: 446.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

86 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

17 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names (4 elements).

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

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

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

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No XML sitemap at https://www.18bricks.ae/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

There is no robots.txt at 18bricks.ae/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

The homepage links to 7 pages on 18bricks.ae and 5 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.

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.

/about-us, /properties, /services/mortgages and /contact-us all use the title “18bricks”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

/about-us, /properties, /services/mortgages and /contact-us use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

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

/properties 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.

/contact-us took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

3 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

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.

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

18bricks.ae 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.

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

Your longest form asks for 10 fields (5 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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 1,386 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 18bricks.ae is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

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.

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 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.