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ben-software.de website review
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This review found 16 issues worth fixing on ben-software.de, 3 of them high impact, across 78 checks. The most urgent: 17 text elements with low contrast. 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
89BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
300 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 300 ms.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 71 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused JavaScript
29 KiBAbout 29 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Improve image delivery
17 KiB1 image could be 17 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
14 KiBPolyfills 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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 99
99/100Your mobile performance score is 99. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.4 s
A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 140 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Not enough real-visitor data yet
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.
6 checks passed
Speed Index: 3.1 s
3.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.1 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Time to Interactive: 3.4 s
3.4 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Largest Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sYour largest element renders in 1.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “ben_dz.”.
Total Blocking Time: 21 ms
21 msScripts block the page for only 21 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.16 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.16 g of CO₂e: 19.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 588 KiB in 26 requests
588 KiBYour homepage downloads 588 KiB in 26 requests on a phone: fonts 338 KiB (5), scripts 178 KiB (9) and images 31 KiB (3). That is a lean page.
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
17 text elements with low contrast
17 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
10 links without text
10 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 3 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
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://bendz.dev/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
10 internal links, 18 external
The homepage links to 10 pages on ben-software.de and 18 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 117 characters
Your meta description is 117 characters: “Freelance software developer from Hamburg, Germany. Full-stack applications, SaaS, AI, websites and game development.”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Hi, I'm Ben.”.
Title: 36 characters
Your title is a healthy 36 characters: “Bendz Software Development - Hamburg”.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
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 /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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (456 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
4 pages share a title
/, /contact, /impressum and /datenschutz all use the title “Bendz Software Development - Hamburg”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
3 pages share a meta description
/contact, /impressum and /datenschutz use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
2 pages with very little text
/contact and /impressum have 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.
3 internal pages checked
We fetched 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 3 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 3 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 3 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 small tap targets
2 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
2 broken external links
2 links to other sites are dead, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-dzaebel-0417324a/ (999).
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.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (ben-software.de).
Valid certificate (46 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for ben-software.de and is valid for another 46 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://ben-software.de redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
1 checks passed
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and sectigo.com to issue certificates for ben-software.de, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Content and conversion
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 analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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.
About 454 words of copy
The homepage carries about 454 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “contact” and “get in touch”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “contact” and “get in touch”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
Email authentication
No DMARC policy
ben-software.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.
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
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 score: 35/100
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.
1 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
Privacy and tracking
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.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Vercel
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